iss028e025734 (8/15/2011) --- Photo documentation of the BCR/RFID Scanner taken aboard the International Space Station(ISS). The RFID-Enabled Autonomous Logistics Management (REALM) (RFID Logistics Awareness) investigation tests a radio-based inventory control system to keep track of everything inside the football-field-sized ISS. Some aspects of the technology are commonly used on Earth, but other aspects are experimental in nature.

Date August 15, 2011