GPS RFID: Satellite-based Tracking Sensors ...

TransCore Develops New Satellite-based Trailer Tracking Sensors

... "TransCore, the largest global manufacturer of transportation-based RFID wireless communication products, acquired the GlobalWave satellite tracking and global positioning system (GPS) technology in March of last year, making TransCore the only manufacturer to offer both major wireless monitoring technologies. The GlobalWave system allows users to monitor, manage, track and communicate with remote and mobile assets from a Web interface. With six ground control stations providing service to five continents, the GlobalWave network supports more than 40,000 installed mobile terminals worldwide. In addition to commercial trucking, GlobalWave products are used for many other transportation applications such as refrigerated goods management, railroad, marine, heavy equipment, and government requirements for defense and homeland security. " ...

TransCore is a transportation services company with 1,800 employees and 80 locations. With installations in 41 countries, more than 100 patents and pioneering applications of RFID, GPS and satellite communications technologies, TransCore's technical expertise is unparalleled in the markets it serves. TransCore’s 60-year heritage spans the development of RFID at Los Alamos National Labs to implementation of the first electronic toll system in the United States to establishing North America’s first freight matching network.