Municipalities Use RFID-based WISTAR to Take Out the Trash

Several years ago, waste management container company SSI Schaefer Systems Int. Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the Schaefer Group, introduced its RFID-based Wireless ID Scanning, Tracking and Recovery (WISTAR) system to enable its customers to track their waste containers more easily after they were distributed to homes and businesses. WISTAR consists of embedding RFID tags in the Schaefer containers, as well as offering a Web portal where customers could access and manage information regarding their assets, based on the collected RFID data. The solution was co-developed by SeedSpark, which provided the RFID technology and cloud-based software to manage the read data.