PowerID BAP Tags Tapped for RTLS at Hiroshima Rose Nursery

PowerID, the industry leader in battery-assisted, passive (BAP) RFID technology, announced that Honest, a leading automatic identification system integrator and software vendor in Japan, has deployed a real-time locating system (RTLS) for high-value rose plants at the Hiroshima Rose Nursery, based on PowerID’s BAP tags. Honest purchased the tags from PowerID’s Tokyo-based partner and agent, Japan21.

Honest developed the system for inventory control for its customer, Hiroshima Rose Nursery. The nursery, which grows about 500 types of roses, requires accurate real-time inventory and location data, primarily for customer inquiries.

To achieve this goal, Honest tagged thousands of plants with PowerID PowerG tags, installed ceiling-antennas, and connected the latter to standard RFID readers in the nursery’s greenhouses to provide instant plant visibility. With the system in place, customers can now log on to the nursery’s portal and check inventory and plant status in real-time, expanding business opportunities for the nursery.

“We chose PowerID’s tags because we required a reasonably priced tag that could be read from twenty meters,” said Hironao Sone, fellow at Honest. “PowerID’s BAP tags met both these requirements, which to us is unique since affordability and excellent performance are two traits that are usually mutually exclusive.”

Japan21 suggested PowerID’s BAP tags after understanding Honest’s tag requirements. Honest expects to deploy the same system in other rose nurseries and envisions other agriculture customers requiring similar systems for real-time location of inventory.

“We are delighted that our BAP RFID tags are being successfully used in an RTLS application at the Hiroshima Rose Nursery,” said Erez Kahani, CEO of PowerID. “We are also happy that our partnership with Japan21 continues to flourish and bear fruit, and we look forward to continued traction in the Japanese market.”