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22 Australian Customs offices and patrol fleets at sea use high frequency passive tags and readers to track the location and maintenance records of patrol equipment.
Australian Customs and Border Protection has more than 50 patrol offices along Australia’s vast coastline, as well as dozens of maritime patrol fleets, which are managed by a central department in the city of Canberra. These agencies are responsible for patrolling 16,000 miles of Australia’s coastline, strictly controlling illicit drugs, people smuggling and terrorism, as well as enforcing trade regulations and collecting customs duties. Customs monitors the use of tools such as patrol weapons, protective gear, special equipment and vehicles in real time.
The control center needs to grasp the detailed usage of patrol weapons, armors, special equipment and vehicles for reasonable distribution and timely maintenance. All the time, various sub-organizations have provided tabular statistical data. However, due to the large liquidity of equipment assets, most of the statistical results of data are inaccurate, equipment cannot be updated in time, and maintenance is often delayed.
In order to solve the above problems, the RFID system is newly introduced. The system’s assetDNA software is provided by asset intelligence solutions provider Relegen, and HID Global provides high-frequency RFID tags. assetDNA is a data management software responsible for statistical processing of data. When the loaned assets are not returned on time, the system will automatically send an alert. In addition, DataTraceDNA technology from DataDot Technologies provides additional security mechanisms when tags are removed under abnormal circumstances. DataTraceDNA is a special molecular structure anti-counterfeiting tape, which cannot be distinguished by the naked eye and requires a spectrometer for detection.
The system uses HID Global’s passive 13.56 MHz RFID tags, which are ISO 15693 compliant. The tags used include HID Global’s Logi Tag 161, Intag 200 and Intag 300, depending on the type of asset being tracked.
At the customs control center, there is a stationary reader for data entry of newly registered assets. So far, 7,000 assets have been in storage, including pistols, machine guns, pistols, handcuffs, maces and protective vests, as well as other protective gear used by 22 sub-patrol fleets.
Every patrol unit has an ammunition bay for storing weapons and other items. Each customs officer holds a HID Global 13.56 MHz RFID card that stores a unique number and information about the person. When the arsenal manager assigns the device, he will scan the RFID tag on the device and the RFID card of the customs officer at the same time, and establish an association between the two. In the process, the Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000Max handheld reader is used.
Do the same when staff return equipment. In this way, equipment traceability is achieved. Managers in the control center log in to the inventory management software to view real-time data, perform reviews at any time, and build maintenance lists based on maintenance dates prompted by the system.
In some cases, Customs and Border Protection’s maritime patrol fleet also uses handheld readers. Equipment managers scan employees’ RFID cards and equipment tags with handheld readers.
Due to the uncertainty of the location of customs work and the large number of users, the system setting must be convenient enough; in addition, in terms of hardware, the label must have a certain degree of waterproofness. Since the system went into operation last summer, it has greatly improved productivity, down from the previous four hours to less than an hour, and improved accuracy. According to Relegen, the Australian Department of Defense (ADF) has also adopted the RFID-based asset tracking system.
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