Dike Project Tracks Concrete Blocks with RFID Technology

A 20-mile dike-reinforcement project in North Holland is leveraging UHF RFID technology to manage each of 75,000 blocks as they are manufactured, stored and then installed to future-proof a 90-year-old retainment structure, RFID Journal reports.

The project is scheduled for completion in 2022. The RFID-enabled blocks now being installed in the dam are using RFID technology provided by Aucxis RFID Solutions. The project was launched in late 2018.

The Afsluitdijk, an iconic 32-kilometer-long dam and causeway built in 1932, protects parts of the Netherlands from flooding by the Wadden Sea and Ijsselmeer Bay.