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TrafficInfraTech 2012 is the most important trade show on traffic technology in India. Trafitek, Scirocco's partner in India, participated with a stall to discuss ETC, Electronic Tolling Control, and various access control solutions for vehicles. The event was a success, it comfirmed its position as a leading trade show and many visitors also also stopped to learn more about solutions based on Scirocco.

Vital Electronics, Scirocco’s partner in Saint Petersburg, has integrated Scirocco Systems with TENRO weighbridges in Kemerovo, Siberia. During 2011, a number of installations have successfully been completed at opencast coal mines. After the vehicle identity has been verified through tag identification at distances of up to 7m, the weighing process is automatically initiated. Each Scirocco reader controls 4 fully independent antennas.

Equipped with a powerful Linux processor, the newly launched R630 'Universal' reader provides speed and programming possibilities, besides valuable flexibility. This is used to easily introduce new applications or functions and to even further simplify the integration with the middleware by letting the reader fully adapt to it.

The LKAB mine at Malmberget, Sweden, has installed Scirocco’s environment-friendly UHF passive tag system. Without batteries, the tags don’t require any maintenance so cost savings are significant. Scirocco readers, antennas and passive tags were swiftly installed and now serves day and night in the mine.

Scirocco, together with its partner RFID Specialisten, was chosen to supply the equipment a Danish bicycle project to promote a healthier lifestyle. Thanks to Scirocco readers and antennas installed in strategic locations, as well as tags mounted on the bicycle wheel, it is possible to keep track of the bicycle's movements and thus reward the most active cyclists.

At the Marmara Forum, Istanbul's largest and most innovative shopping centre, access/exit at about 20 lanes has now become hands-free and very fast as well as secure, thanks to Scirocco RFID equipment. Special Scirocco tags, similar to credit cards, are slid into a dedicated holder on the car windshield.

Scirocco has won an order to supply two toll plazas that are being built along the National Highway 13 between Bijapur and Hungund in the Karnataka province in India. The project is based on our high-performance ISO 18000-6C standard UHF RFID system, with eight antennae/readers for the fast lanes, and a few thousands of Scirocco break on removal tags that will ensure that the right vehicle will always be charged.

After over two years of careful evaluation of UHF RFID systems from several manufacturers, the Swedish Transport Administration recently disclosed the result of a public procurement: Three vendors will supply RFID readers to the Swedish railway for automatic identification of trains, and Scirocco was well out in the published list of compliant suppliers.

A Danish company has recently placed a major order for Scirocco's UHF system, the company's largest single order of products in this family so far. The project, which is the first in a planned series, includes readers with built-in wireless transmission facilities, ‘WLAN’. Scirocco's UHF system can thereby automatically and without any wired communications update a website on the internet with the tag readings.

As a follow-up to earlier delivery of the Scirocco IR system to the well reputed Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, Scirocco's partner now also sold the system to a leading car manufacturer in Germany for further verification.