RFID Tracks Mussel Beds in Spain
June 16th, 2009
RFID update: A family-owned mussel business in Galicia, Spain, has teamed with researchers at the University of Vigo to test RFID for tracking mussel cultivation. The mussel company, Concepción Suárez Fernández, collaborated with the Systems Engineering and Automation Department at the university to design a system that uses passive RFID tags to identify the ropes that the mussels grow on. "The lack of IT in this industry has been a problem for a long time," says Jorge Nuñez, one of the owners of Concepción Suárez Fernández. "We need to know exactly what was on the mussel beds, how long they had been there, and we need to be able to forecast growth so we can plan our sales.
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