Avocados and RFID

Rio Blanco, Chile’s fourth largest fruit producer will be using RFID to ensure proper temperature management for their avocados

The avocados and their tags then went through the rigorous process of being sorted, washed and waxed. After the avocados were packed into cartons for transport, a "master pallet" was tagged with the same temperature logger, and that pallet was linked with data for a number of other pallets traveling by the same vehicles.

Temperature is recorded at the time the avocado is picked and can be monitored at any time during transportation with handheld readers.

Originally, the pilot included individually wrapped RFID loggers on every single piece of fruit. Now, the shipments only include tagging of the pallets and cooling bins.