Fujitsu unveils GPS receiver with integrated RFID tag

While we've got both GPS receivers and RFID tags handling very important duties around the world, Fujitsu has gone and unveiled a GPS unit with built-in RFID capabilities to provide the best of both worlds. The Tag Locator V2 sports the locating abilities we've come to know and love, promising accurate longitude / latitude measurements between "three and five meters, and bundles in an active RFID tag that operates on the 429MHz frequency band. Once the GPS receiver beams out the location data, the device then communicates the RFID information via "a unique ID," and can purportedly channel its data to any reader within 200 meters. Designed primarily to provide constant streams of precise data in airports, garages, and other locales that manage a plethora of equipment / vehicles (or lucrative PS3 boxes), the units should hit shipyards soon at ¥20,000 ($169) a pop.

[Via RFID in Japan]

[Matt Dusza @ Dec 27th 2006 4:01AM]

It looks like a GBA SP

[Bernardo @ Dec 27th 2006 8:15AM]

Why is it pink/purple? :S

[PEZ @ Dec 27th 2006 7:50PM]

Wow, a GPS that can find itself if it second quesses the satellites. Neato.

WRAP IT UP BOB.