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Bristol Uniforms, a designer and manufacturer of protective clothing for firefighters and other emergency personnel, has announced that it will use radio frequency identification tags in its uniforms. The tags will be used in its future clothing designs and will enable automatic tracking of Bristol’s uniforms, according to Harland Simon. Harland Simon provides label support for the company.
Bristol Uniforms purchased 4,000 passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) tags to be sewn into the pockets of each newly manufactured uniform product item.ShouldRFIDMade of waterproof neoprene, the label is part of the Harland Simon Vero Solutions product line and features Alien Technology’s Higgs3 chip that can withstand temperatures up to 150 degrees Celsius (302 degrees Fahrenheit), meaning it can survive fire-fighting conditions, As well as running under professional cleaning procedures, according to the company.
Bristol Uniforms is also building out the Uniform Care Program, designed to help fire and emergency uniform manufacturers provide lifetime care of garments. The project implementation also includes Zebra’s MC3190-Z UHF handheld reader series for collecting records of inspections and repairs of uniforms at fire stations and service centers.
Bristol sews uniforms with tags
RFID tags replaced barcode labels used in uniforms, which required manual scanning to collect data, a very time-consuming process, according to Harland Simon, because barcodes required one-to-one scanning. The company notes that, being a manual process, it is also prone to human error during the manual scanning process.
“RFID tags that fit our apparel application need to meet the automatic tracking of information from cleaning, inspection and repair cycles to return to border stations in our uniform management service tracking program,” said Edward Shepherd, director of service operations at Bristol Uniforms.
Automated scanning and RFID readers will greatly reduce the time our employees spend collecting information on clothing. The application of RFID technology allows multiple items to be scanned simultaneously without the need to find barcodes. This means that employees are able to scan the contents of a complete collection bag without even having to separate them.
Ultimately, Harland Simon said, the tracking information will be available online, providing Bristol Uniform users with a full range of clothing tracking information through records of each stage of the clothing management service process. The project is expected to be fully deployed by the end of January 2016.
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