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Dec 2011 – Techsolutions exhibits in China
Techsolutions attended exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai as part of delegation of South African companies organised by the Department of Trade and Industry

Nov 2011 – Techsolutions Installs RFIDAccess at the Innovation Hub
Techsolutions completed the contract to install RFID access at the main entrance gate to the Innovation Hub office park. Tenants can either use RFID tags for entry or biometric. The contract included the refurbishment of booms for 7 lanes.

Oct 2011 – Asset Tracking for Tubular Holdings
Techsolutions supplied the Mobile Asset solution for Asset Tracking to Tubular Holdings, one of the largest privately owned construction companies in Southern Africa. Tubular Holdings (Pty) Ltd provides the Construction Industry a service in Structural Steelwork, Platework, Piping Fabrication, Erection, Electrical & Instrumentation, Installation of Mechanical Equipment, Planning, Management and Execution of Turnaround Projects. This solution was deployed at the Head Office in Bedfordview and will also be deployed at the various subsidiary companies.

Sep 2011 – Techsolutions Presents at Logistics Workshop
Techsolutions presented at the 3rd Annual Logistics Workshop held in Windhoek Namibia by the Namibian German Institute of Logistics. The topic presented was “RFID solutions in the Supply Chain” and focussed on case studies of projects successfully completed by Techsolutions. The first case study was that of traffic control using RFID technology, which Techsolutions supplied to SANRAL for Overload Control. The second case study looked at weigh bridge automation. The third case study was about inventory management, which Techsolutions supplied to Park Village Auctioneers. The application of RFID technology in solutions for Tolling and congestions management was also discussed.

Sep 2011 – Techsolutions Tracks Conference Delegates
The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has recently adopted a point system for members. Members earn points based on the period they attend lectures and presentations. Techsolutions was approached and provided a solution for tracking delegates and measuring the period they spend in lectures. The solution was successfully used at SAMA’s recent conference which was held at the CSIR Conference Centre in Pretoria.

July 2011 – Techsolutions provides Mobile Asset to Atlantis Foundries
Techsolutions completed the rollout of Mobile Asset at Atlantis Foundries, a subsidiary of Daimler Chrysler. The system is used for tagging, tracking and auditing assets in the Foundry and Machining Departments. All heavy machines are tagged with passive RFID while office equipment is marked with barcode tags.

Mar 2011 Techsolutions supplies RFID Vehicle Inventory Management Solution to Park Village Auctioneers
Park Village Auctioneers (PVA) is the largest auction house in South Africa of repossessed vehicles. At any time PVA manages between 3,000 and 6,000 vehicles at 10 different locations. Over the past 12 months, Techsolutions assisted in migrating PVA from a manual tracking solution using Excel spreadsheets to an automated RFID based inventory management solution. When a new repossessed vehicle arrives at a site, it is tagged with a RFID tag and linked to the vehicle details are extracted from the vehicle license disk. The data is uploaded to an online database using the handheld RFID/barcode scanner. All site managers and financial institutions can log in to the web site and view vehicle details and movements. Taking inventory is fast: it takes about 1 hour to scan 1000 vehicles, so it can be done on a daily basis instead of monthly. The frustrating month-end stock take bottleneck has now become a legacy. Accuracy has also been improved substantially.
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Jan 2011 Techsolutions supplies RFIDGate to Verref
Techsolutions supplies RFIDgate to Vereniging Refractories in cooperation with Accsys. RFIDgate was integrated into the Accsys Time and Attendance Solution.

Nov 2010 Techsolutions Launches RFIDGate
RFIDgate automates the entry of vehicles into premises using Long Range Passive RFID. It uses our new LIR-100 reader which covers 2 lanes (entry and exit). The LIR-100 has outputs to control the opening of booms and gates. RFIDgate is a service offered to estates, office parks and industrial clients. The entry logs from the LIP-100 are automatically uploaded to the RFIDgate web site via the GPRS modem of the LIR-100. Users can log in and view logs as well as add/delete tags allowed to enter.

Oct 2010 Techsolutions Supplies Weigh Bridge Automation Solution
Techsolutions supplied an automated Weigh Bridge Monitoring solution to Big Sky Monitoring at the Vuna Coal Mine. When a truck arrives at the weigh bridge its unique RFID tag is recorded by our LIR-100 reader. Our S/W component extracts the weight data from the Trek Scale MS Access database and sends it with the vehicle tag ID to our servers using the GPRS modem of the LIR-100. Big Sky Monitoring and their client can log on to our web site and view the loads collected and delivered in real time.

Nov 2010: Weighbridge Automation Solution
Techsolutions commissioned a new weighbridge solution for Big Sky Monitoring, focussing on monitoring of the coal supply chain. Using our new LIR reader with integrated GPRS modem, vehicle and weight data are automatically sent to our servers in real time. This allows real time monitoring of the coal supply chain operations.

Oct 2010: Techsolutions presents at Logistics Conference
Techsolutions presented the topic “Implementing RFID in Logistics” at the Logistics Workshop in Walvisbay. This was organised by the Namibian German Centre of Logistics at the Polytechnic of Namibia.

Aug 2010 Techsolutions supplies RFID Library portal
Techsolutions has developed a new RFID portal for the tracking of books, media and files. The portal has been integrated with LibWin library management software and installed at the first library.

Aug 2010 Techsolutions supplies laptop protection solution to Botswana Bureau of Standards
Techsolutions supplied and installed SmartAsset, a RFID solution to protect mobile assets such as laptop computers. The system is used by the Botswana Bureau of Standards in Gabarone.

Jul 2010: Techsolutions participates in Shanghai Expo
Techsolutions exhibited at the South African Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo. Techsolutions attended as part of a delegation organised by the Department of Trade and Industry.

Jun 2010 Techsolutions installs RFID lab at Namibia Polytechnic
Techsolutions has provided a number of RFID demonstrators for the Centre of Logistics at the Namibia Polytechnic. These RFID demonstrators will be used to train students in the use and application of RFID technology. The stations demonstrate the following applications: temperature logging in the cold chain, pallet and goods tracking, weigh bridge automation, asset tracking and asset protection..

15 Apr 2010 Techsolutions Installs MobileAsset at BHP Billiton Subsidiary
Techsolutions recently completed the installation of a MobileAsset Entreprise at Manganese Metal Company. Manganese Metal Company (MMC) is the single largest producer of pure electrolytic manganese metal in the world. MobileAsset is used to track barcoded and RFID fitted assets in the various production facilities.

10 Apr 2010 Techsolutions Supplies ACSA
Techsolutions has been contacted by Airports Company of South Africa for the provision of an asset tracking solution. The solution will be utilized for the tracking of assets at all 6 of the ACSA airports.

March 2010 - RFID tracking of Library Books
Techsolutions completed the delivery of a checkout reader and security portal to a major vendor of library solutions.

March 2010 - Techsolutions technicians attend Impinj training
Techsolutions technicians attended a training course provided by Impinj and are now certified to implement Impinj hardware
 
Dec 2009 - Transnet uses MobileAsset
Techsolutions completed the installation of MobileAsset at Transnet Saldanha. The project involves using RFID tags for tracking machinery for maintenance purposes.

March 2009 - Intelligent Transport Conference
Eon de Koker presented the topic: -The role of RFID in Intelligent Transport Systems-. The talk included an overview of current passive and active RFID implementations in Intelligent Transport Systems in the USA and Europe, related international standards as well as market trends. Examples were also shown of how passive RFID technology was replacing active in the USA in tolling applications, due its lower operational cost. In Europe the challenge of operating tolling in the European Union is to make the systems deployed in the various countries interoperable. Since existing European systems use predominantly active technology, European standards only supports active (legacy) technology. Apart from the e-tag used by Bakwena in South Africa, there are no legacy active RFID deployed in South Africa. We therefore have the unique opportunity to select the better option.

February 2009 - 18th International Engineering and Technology Fair
Techsolutions exhibits in Bangalore, India at the 18th International Engineering and Technology Fair. Techsolutions exhibited as part of the South African Pavillion, organized and supported by the South African Department of Trade and Industry. Techsolutions received a number of enquiries for tracking and tracing solutions and are pursuing cooperation with a number of possible partners.

January 2009 - Bapong Traffic Control Centre
Techsolutions completes delivery of RFID hardware to Mikros Traffic Monitoring, a division of Syntell. This is to be used in the implementation of traffic control systems at the Bapong Traffic Control Centre for heavy vehicles. Each vehicle coming off the highway is tagged and then channeled through various test stations including weigh bridges and roadworthiness. This is the first implementation of this nature in South Africa utilizing RFID technology.

Press Releases
Techsolutions a partner in newly launched EPC RFID Test Centre for South Africa - IT Web, 10 October 2006
Techsolutions is proud to be a partner in the newly launched test centre. The following is a link to the relevant article on IT Web: SA to get RFID test centre

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