Latin America. The RFID Journal published a study called "RFID is heating up in Latin America" in which it reveals the increase in the use of this type of technology in the region for the security sector by governments and other organizations, as a measure to combat trafficking, theft and other crimes.
In Colombia, which has historically faced challenges with illegal drug trafficking, they built a 1,700-mile-long (about 2,700-kilometer) network of RFID contacts to locate cargo containers with goods exported from industrial plants en route to ships.
The RFID system is located on major roads and ports and can read electronic seals on containers and detect whether a container has been opened or tampered with along the way. The project is planned to begin this summer.
In Mexico, a bus company is using RFID to monitor its new tires and prevent them from being stolen for black market marketing. They also implement this solution in a renowned university in the north of the country, to prevent the massive theft of laptops.
In Argentina, for its part, the first electronic toll storage system in South America was presented since last year, in order to reduce speed and congestion and combat the proliferation of vehicles without registration. As it happens in Brazil where there are 30% of cars that are not registered and that with RFID intend to reduce the theft of these and improve traffic.
