Long-range Active Rfid System for Underground Mines

With the forecast worldwide capital investment in municipal wireless broadband networks will reach $400 million in 2007 (by Yankee Group), we would need to consider additional benefits from building boom Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks. WiBorne has designed and developed Wi-Fi Citywide projects worldwide during past years, and are realising the benefits of Wi-Fi based location services and innovative Wi-Fi network planning and optimisation tools for Public Wireless LAN (P-WLAN). While deploying long range wireless projects, we feel that asset tracking for large scale wireless deployment is demanded and an improvement of existing active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is required. The majority of our applications will be designed for large organizations because Wi-Fi and RFID have already been deployed in the enterprise. Applications will eventually be developed with these technologies to target the consumer space. However, due to such large coverage areas, wireless MAN will require some mechanism to further refine location to provide effective services. We address the discussion of problems and solutions for such deployment, along with success case study for recently demonstration of WiFi and RFID tracking for a mine in Wyoming, USA.