AIT/ITV 101
- Background (History)
- Briefing
- RFID Vision
- Examples of AIT
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Asset Visibility (AV):
The ability to determine the location, movement, status, and identity of units, personnel, equipment, and supplies. It facilitates the capability to act upon information to improve overall performance of DOD logistics practices. (Source: JP 3-35)
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Automatic Identification Technology (AIT):
Automatic identification technology (AIT), known commercially as automatic identification data capture (AIDC), is a suite of technologies enabling the automatic capture of data, thereby enhancing the ability to identify, track, document, and control assets, e.g., materiel, deploying and redeploying forces, equipment, personnel, and sustainment cargo. AIT encompasses a variety of data storage/carrier technologies, such as bar codes, magnetic strips, integrated circuit cards, optical laser discs (compact discs), satellite tracking and radio frequency identification tags used for marking or tagging individual items, equipment, air pallets, or containers. (Source JP 4-09)
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In-Transit Visibility (ITV):
The ability to track the identity, status, and location of DOD units, and non-unit cargo (excluding bulk petroleum, oils, and lubricants) and passengers; patients; and personal property from origin to consignee or destination across the range of military operations. (Source: JP 4-01.2)
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Radio-frequency identification (RFID):
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders.
An RFID tag is an object that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.
Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating a (RF) signal and can also be used for other specialized functions. The second is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal.