| Q-Track Develops Forklift Tracking Application When Q-Track first demonstrated a proof-of-concept real-time location system across 50000 sqft of a Just-In-Time Services (JITS), Inc. warehouse in Hartselle, AL, the tracking "tag" was mounted on a tripod and had a two foot whip antenna. Nevertheless, Peter Beucher, was impressed. "The Q-Track team set up four receivers and was demonstrating bin level accuracy in a matter of a couple hours." But Beucher, then President of JITS, had a sobering message for Q-Track. "My customers complain when I charge them $0.20 to stick a barcode on a pallet. There's no way anyone will pay for an active tag on each of the tens of thousands of assets in my warehouse." Later, Beucher realized there was a better way. "The pallets in my warehouse don't move themselves -- they only move when a forklift or hand truck moves them. If we could leverage standards based RFID systems to identify the pallet picked up by the forklift, then track the location of the forklift, and know where the forklift drops the pallet -- then we'd know the exact location of the pallet at all times. Instead of thousand active tags, the system would only require as many active tags as there are forklifts." Enthused, Beucher joined Q-Track as Vice President for Business Development in 2006. Beucher has a patent pending on his concept. Learn More: www.q-track.com |
