Dinosaur Bones Are Now Unearthed and Cataloged With an Innovative Technology That Improves Workflow by 80%
18 Junio 2024 - 8:00AM
AUSTIN, Texas, June 18, 2024 – “For a couple
of bucks I know where everything is. I can't speak glowingly enough
about how well this works for us. We are in the middle of nowhere;
there's no Wi-Fi connectivity here, and it (RFID) still works,”
said Tom Hebert, Founder and Director of Earth Sciences
Foundation.
Leveraging technology from HID’s RFID tags, InfraMarker's RFID
system and Esri’s field mapping software, Herbert and Earth
Sciences Foundation, a fossil excavation non-profit, are excavating
dinosaur fossils in remote South Dakota and are experiencing an 80%
improvement in workflows, reduced burden of manual data entry and
administrative tasks. This frees up valuable time for the field
technicians to focus on core activities like research and fossil
conservation.
In brief, RFID ID tags are a type of tracking system that uses
radio frequency to search, identify, track, and communicate with
items and people.
“RFID is radio frequency identification and an easy way to think
about RFID tags is that they are a wireless barcode attached to an
object that you can change and update. The big benefit here is that
Tom and his team can update the RFID tags on fly,” explained David
Chose, HID Global Sales Manager, Americas, Identification
Technologies Division. “So as these bones go through the whole
process of being excavated to being displayed at a museum, each
step of the process can be easily updated and documented” concluded
Chose.
“Using HID’s RFID tag technology, GIS mapping, and geospatial
curation, we can see the life of this fossil from the time we found
it in the ground, to the time we put it in storage, to the time we
prep it, clean it, restore it and display it in the museum. This
allows people to follow the adventure of this bone from beginning
to end. It also allows us and other scientists to do better
research, collaborate easier and exchange ideas faster,” stated
Hebert.
The solution proved to be a resounding success. Within just five
days, the excavation team had seamlessly cataloged 347 fossils,
demonstrating this innovative approach's rapid adoption and
efficiency gains.
“This project is the proof that any organization that needs to
track and manage assets across space and time will benefit from
incorporating RFID with the GIS,” said Mike Klonsinski, President
of Berntsen.
Watch the video to learn more about the bones’ journey from the
field to the storage facility or read the case study here.
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- Dinosaur Bones Are Now Unearthed and Cataloged With an
Innovative Technology That Improves Workflow by 80%
Matt Winn
HID Global
mwinn@hidglobal.com