RFID-Enabled radios improve the efficiency of guard tour systems, and allow real-time monitoring of the patrollers

Banks, residences, hotels and logistics firms often need to track the movements of their personnel through remote locations. Most companies use a predominantly manual method. The manual method most often is individuals check in via mobile phone or radio each time they arrive at, or leave, a specific location. This greatly reduce the efficiency and flexible of tracking. RFID-enabled radios make this process automated. The radio's RFID technology is designed to monitor the locations of individuals who work remotely and are constantly on the move, such as guards, cleaners and maintenance personnel. The RFID-enabled radios come with a built-in RFID reader designed to work in conjunction with RFID-tagged Patrol Checkpoint. 

The RFID-enabled radios were developed to improve the efficiency of guard tour systems, to reduce the number of devices that need to be carried and to allow real-time monitoring of the patrollers. Banks, residences, hotels and logistics firms have begun using RFID-enabled two-way radios to monitor the locations of its security guards and other personnel. RFID-enabled handheld two-way radio comes with a built-in RFID reader, designed to work in conjunction with RFID cards, RFID-tagged Patrol Checkpoints and Patrol Management software application, to manage each read event and make that data available to a company's management or clients as needed.

At each location at which an employee is intended to report, such as specific rooms or facilities, there is a Patrol Checkpoint mounted to a wall or other surface. When the worker brings a RFID-enabled radio to a Patrol Checkpoint, the handheld emits an audible beep to indicate that it has the unique ID encoded to that Patrol Checkpoint's RFID tag. That read data is sent to the server thereby updating the software to indicate he or she was at that location.

Each employee's assigned patrol routes can be entered into the application, enabling the manager or dispatcher to confirm that every Patrol Checkpoint is visited within the required span of time. In the event of an emergency, such as an employee not responding to radio calls, the system will indicate that individual's last known position, thus making it easier to locate him or her.

Since the system was released, numerous companies in a variety of industries have been using the radios, tags and application to identify where their workers are located, and when.