Container yards are massive areas where trucks, trailers and other large haul vehicles lug in containers, deposit them for transfer to other trucks or ships. Similarly they pick up containers offloaded from ships or other trucks. This is of course, not as simple to operate as it sounds. Some container yards easily measure 25 kilometers across having thousands of containers,either to be deposited or awaiting pick-up. Truck drivers are interested in picking up or depositing their containers in the shortest possible time.Even large amounts of staff, radio handsets, access to computer terminals and databases do not make this task easy.
In many countries today, the local authorities, or the contractors appointed by them, are responsible for collection of garbage from urban neigborhoods.
A typical parking access pass is a windshield sticker that shows the times at which access is to be allowed, to which lot & valid upto a certain date.The sticker can get peeled off, smudged, defaced due to rain or bleached due to sunshine.
Workers manually do the checking, by entering into manholes. They find it difficult to carry anything that they can record their observations on. They have to come outside and fill up forms, which are then passed on to repair crews.There is no way that a supervisor can be sure that a worker has done his job.
A shopper casually walks into the store. She is glancing at interesting items and comes across a scarf (say costing $500—yes, it’s a designer scarf, remember?) the fixed RFID reader located some distance away notices and records this interest.If the shopper calls out to a sales girl (equipped with a “wand”) she can get all information about the scarf by waving her (magic?) wand.The wand reads the tag, connects wirelessly to the store database and displays information about the scarf on a large LCD screen somewhere nearby.