TransCore, a global manufacturer of transportation-based RFID products located in Harrisburg, Penn., and a unit of Roper Industries, has completed its acquisition of Atlanta-based IntelliTrans, a track and trace software platform servicing the rail and intermodal industry.


TransCore will combine IntelliTrans' in-transit visibility, maintenance, repair, yard and inventory-management service offerings with its own RFID and satellite communications products to provide integration for rail, truck, container, barge and intermodal applications.
More than 10 years ago, TransCore spokesperson Barbara Catlin explains, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) adopted TransCore's Amtech RFID technology as the standard for automatic equipment identification (AEI) in North America, and 100 percent of all railcars in interchange service are now mandated to utilize TransCore passive tags operating at 902-928 MHz.

The firm has installed more than 6.5 million tags and 20,000 readers (interrogators) throughout the rail and intermodal industry.


Through the acquisition of IntelliTrans, TransCore will merge its Atlanta-based CarrierPoint organization, which provides Web-based transportation management systems, into the IntelliTrans reporting structure.


Source: RFID Journal