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New Case Study: Rental Car Leader Tracks Summit Attendance With RFID

Friday, October 5, 2007

For its annual employee summit, DTG wanted an automated solution to efficiently track attendees.

Specifically, DTG the leisure rental car leader wanted to use RFID technology to track attendance at the event’s trade show booths and exhibition to gauge employee interest and reveal opportunities for making future summits more cost efficient.

DTG had only two months to develop and test the solution before its annual summit. The company asked EDS to design and deploy this innovative solution quickly to create a “wow factor” at its upcoming conference.

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