Alvarion Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi Solution Deployed at the Port of Eilat, Israel

Alvarion

today announced the company's carrier-grade Wi-Fi solution has been deployed to provide Wi-Fi coverage to support use of warehousing and distribution applications at the Port of Eilat, Israel. The Port of Eilat manages seven open-air parking lots as "bonded warehouses" which hold up to 40 thousand cars on behalf of local car importers. As part of a larger project to upgrade the Port's information technology systems and to better manage the inventory in these parking lots, a private Wi-Fi network was installed through which the Port staff can track vehicles with wireless RFID technology. The network enables the Port staff to know the status of each vehicle, its exact location in one of the Port's parking lots and other information necessary in order to release the vehicle from the bonded warehouse. "With tens of thousands of vehicles stored at the Port we wanted a Wi-Fi network that would allow us to utilize wireless RFID technology to give us accurate and timely data to more efficiently oversee the inventory in