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It is encased with rough plastic, with the advantage of being durable and reusable. It offers cost-effective tagging solutions for industry customers and enables inventory visibility throughout the supply chain, reducing shrinkage and out-of-stocks. The RFID+EAS combined hard tags upgrade the existing EAS technology, and integrate merchandise visibility and loss prevention into a single and synergetic solution. 

Omni-ID has made a name for itself over the years as a provider of high performance UHF1 RFID tags that function well on challenging materials (e.g. metal, liquids—they invented and hold patents for on-metal tags) in harsh environments (e.g. manufacturing plants, oil & gas fields, etc.). Omni-ID announced a bold new direction and product line in a press conference held on Wednesday 3/28/12 at MIT’s annual ‘Auto-ID & Sensing Expo’ in Cambridge, MA. Omni-ID has merged with Dynamic e-Horizons, a firm that designs and builds e-paper displays, combined with low-energy wireless networks, tracking algorithms, and a software platform. Omni-ID has integrated these new technologies with its own UHF RFID tags to create ‘visual tagging’ systems.

Visual Tagging

The new devices combine an ‘e-paper’ type display with a battery-powered active UHF tag. These devices can incorporate Zenithal Bi-stable Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology or alternatively electrophoretic displays, enabling long battery life because they do not consume power while displaying.2 The bi-stable LCD display tag has about a 6-7 year battery life, according to Omni-ID. 

Omni-ID offers four different sized visual tags today, with diagonal display dimensions of 6”, 4”, 3”, and 2”. A low-end visual tag will be in the $20+ range in high volumes. Omni-ID is also working on a battery-less passive visual tag which will harvest RF energy through its antenna and store that energy in an onboard capacitor. That will be about half the cost of the active tag and is expected to be available in the second half of 2012. Because it has a capacitor to store energy, the RFID can operate like a Battery Assisted Passive (BAP) tag, which will have better range than a purely passive tag (but not as long as the active tag).

Omni-ID also develops the networking and software pieces, including a cloud-based server that connects to all the visual tags. This software manages, commissions, and updates the tags and has a web-services interface that can provide real-time integration to enterprise systems. For example, orders could flow in from an order management system and be used to drive the process and populate the tags and displays.

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  Manufacturers often send empty totes to their suppliers (who may be co-located or at a separate facility). These totes are then filled by the supplier with the specific parts tied to a specific order, such as a particular radio or sound system for the specific cars being built on the assembly line. The bins arrive in the same build sequence as the main line, the parts are installed, and then a new cycle is started. A new label is printed for the next job for that tote which is sent back to the supplier for the next cycle.
• Retailers often use bins or totes or rolling racks that cycle from their suppliers to the retailer's own DC to the stores and back.
• The postal service uses bins extensively to move items through their system to the destination. These are then reused for new items and destinations.
• In hospital operating rooms, a specific set of surgical instruments is prepared and delivered in a tray or kit. After use, the instruments are sterilized and then reused for the next procedure. It is critical that this cycle is managed flawlessly, so that no instrument is ever used without having gone through sterilization.

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Active RFID systems have three essential parts – a reader or interrogator, antenna, and a tag. Active RFID tags possess their own power source – an internal battery that enables them to have extremely long read ranges as well as large memory banks.
Typically, active RFID tags are powered by a battery that will last between 3 - 5 years, but when the battery fails, the active tag will need to be replaced. As the active tag market matures, replaceable batteries will be a cost saving option. The system’s functionality depends entirely on the type of tag chosen for the application.

Essentially, two different types of active RFID tags are available – transponders and beacons.
Transponders – In a system that uses an active transponder tag, the reader (like passive systems) will send a signal first, and then the active transponder will send a signal back with the relevant information. Transponder tags are very efficient because they conserve battery life when the tag is out of range of the reader. Active RFID transponders are commonly used in secure access control and in toll booth payment systems.

Beacons – In a system that uses an active beacon tag, the tag will not wait to hear the reader’s signal. Instead, true to its name, the tag will ‘beacon’, or send out its specific information every 3 - 5 seconds. Beacon tags are very common in the oil and gas industry, as well as mining and cargo tracking applications. Active tag’s beacons can be read hundreds of meters away, but, in order to conserve battery life, they may be set to a lower transmit power in order to reach around 100 meters read range.
Tasked with weathering harsh environmental conditions such as extreme temperatures and moisture, most active RFID tags are encased in a rugged shell. Because of the size of the enclosed battery, circuitry, and bulk of a durable exterior, active RFID tags are usually much larger than passive tags. Also, some active tags may have on-board sensors that track environmental parameters. These sensors can track moisture levels, temperature, and other key identifiers that a company can use for their application.
All these additional features translate to increased csts for the customer, but the return on investment of a system may far outweigh the initial costs. The prices of active RFID tags range anywhere from $20 to $100+ depending on the tag’s ability to withstand harsh conditions and other key functional features of the tag. Given the required investment of an active RFID system, active tags are usually reserved for tracking high worth assets or for items where accurate location tracking is necessary to the success of the system. A few examples of these type of assets are pipes, cargo containers, and machinery.

While new applications for active RFID systems appear daily, these systems are usually used in the oil and gas industry, shipping and logistics, construction, mining, and high-value manufacturing.

    Pros of Active RFID Tags:

• Extremely Long Read Range
• Increased tag abilities with partnered technologies (GPS, sensors, etc.)
• Extremely Rugged tag options

Generally speaking, three main parts make up in a passive RFID system – an RFID reader or interrogator, an RFID antenna, and RFID tags. Unlike active RFID tags, passive RFID tags only have two main components – the tag''s antenna and the microchip or integrated circuit (IC).As the name implies, passive tags wait for a signal from an RFID reader. The reader sends energy to an antenna which converts that energy into an RF wave that is sent into the read zone. Once the tag is read within the read zone, the RFID tag’s internal antenna draws in energy from the RF waves. The energy moves from the tag’s antenna to the IC and powers the chip which generates a signal back to the RF system. This is called backscatter. The backscatter, or change in the electromagnetic or RF wave, is detected by the reader (via the antenna), which interprets the information.As mentioned above, passive RFID tags have no internal power source, and a standard passive RFID tag consists only of an IC and internal antenna; this basic structure is commonly referred to as an RFID inlay. Countless other types of passive RFID tags exist on the market, but all tags generally fall into two categories – inlays or hard tags. Hard RFID tags are durable and made of plastic, metal, ceramic and even rubber. They come in all shapes and sizes and are typically designed for a unique function, material, or application.A few different groups work to further divide passive hard tags; however, some tags will exist within two or more groups.
High Temperature – Certain industries, like healthcare, track the number of cycles that instruments undergo in punishing autoclaves. Specific passive RFID tags are designed to withstand extreme temperatures and accommodate for those types of applications, among others.
Rugged – Applications in outdoor environments or tough warehouses need a tag that can withstand snow and ice, dust and debris, or even the crushing forces felt under a tractor wheel. For these applications, a highly rugged passive tag is needed to make the application successful.
Size – Some applications have specific size constraints when tracking small or large items. Size is one of the more important questions to answer when choosing an RFID tag because there are many different sizes available.
Materials – If an application requires tracking metal assets, UHF metal-mount tags may be the only option. These tags are specifically designed to mitigate the problems UHF RFID faces around metal.
Embeddable – If tagging an item becomes a problem for specific applications due to significant wear and tear, embeddable tags can fit in small crevices and be covered in epoxy so the RFID tag is out of harm’s way.
Inlays are usually the cheapest RFID tags costing as low as $0.12 per tag in high volumes, but the price does not affect the performance. These inlays are grouped into three main types:
Dry Inlays – An RFID microchip (IC) and antenna attached to a material or substrate called a web. These inlays look like they have been laminated and come standard with no adhesive.
Wet Inlays – An RFID microchip (IC) and antenna attached to a material, usually PET or PVT, with an adhesive backing. Most of the time these inlays are clear and can be peeled off their roll and immediately stuck on an item.
Paper Face Tags – These are essentially wet inlays with a white paper or poly face. These are ideal for applications that need printed numbers or logos on the front for identification.

While Using RFID tags on metal product or surface, you should use Mount On Metal RFID Tags Or Metal Mount RFID Tags, as, else your system will not function as desired as the metal will detune any passive RFID tags that are not designed to be placed on metal. Using metal mount RFID tags that are specifically calibrated to the materials you need to track maks reading, tracking, and inventorying them easier and provides for greater read range.

UHF Metal Mount RFID tags are typically durable, reliable, rugged, difficult to damage, and easy to weld, screw or can be easily applied through some other sort of attachment. UHF Metal Mount tags are wide band EPC CLASS 1 GEN 2 UHF Metal Mount tag having excellent read performance on metal surfaces. It is widely using in Container Tracking & Metal Waste Bin tracking.

Using tags that are specifically calibrated to the materials you need to track makes reading, tracking, and inventorying them easier and provides for greater read range. Metal mount RFID tags are typically rugged, difficult to damage, and easy to weld, screw or otherwise attach. We are offering RFID Metal Tags to our clients which are widely used in various applications such as Tool Tracking, Asset Tracking  etc. Available in both High Frequency (HF) and Ultra-High Frequency (UHF), Metal-mount RFID tags are made for metal surfaces and products.

Windshield Tag is a tamper-proof tag and can be easily attached with self-adhesive tape. It is a flexible tag and operates effectively with a read range of over 8-10 m when attached inside of the vehicles’ windshield. It can be used in Electronic toll collection applications, transports systems & vehicle identification.

• RFID Windshield Tags
• Operating Frequency: 840-960 MHz EPC global Class 1 Gen 2
• Protocol: ISO/IEC 18000-6C compliant
• Type: Alien Higgs-3/4, Monza 4/ 4QT/5
• Areas of Application: Vehicle Tracking, Asset Tracking

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