RFID Tracks Assets at Canada's Oil Sands

About five years ago, Atlas RFID Solutions developed a solution to track approximately 4,000 fabricated pipe spools (sections of pipe preassembled with flanges and other fittings) at the construction site of a power plant in Virginia. Based on that system's success, the company launched a full-scale construction-management solution, known as Jovix, which employs radio frequency identification tags and readers to monitor materials and tools at oil and gas facilities, power plants, and similar industrial construction projects—often from the point of an item's manufacture until it is built into the facility.