The British technology company RFTRAQ has announced the general availability of its range of long range, read/write and IP addressable active RFID tags as part of its complete range of end-to-end RFID software and hardware solutions for industrial environments.
The firm’s active RFID technology sets new standards globally for the performance and versatility of RFID technology. This announcement coincides with the opening of RFTRAQ’s new production facilities in Guildford with the capacity to produce 3 million tags a year.
While in the industry at large there is more discussion about the potential application of active RFID than actual action, the enterprise has bucked this trend and already boasts a customer base of blue-chip clients. With a total range of complimentary technology hardware, engineering and software products, the company is able, ‘in-house’, to deliver end to end active RFID solutions, covering both production and supply chain management.
Its innovations include application within the paper industry production and supply chain of reusable and recyclable active RFID enabled aluminium ‘cores’ which sit at the centre of multi-tonne rolls of paper. With over 30 patents granted or in filing, the company is now making its entire product range generally available and seeking to introduce its solutions into other industries .
Through its institutional investor shareholders, the firm recently commissioned Elucidare to conduct a survey of 49 RFID companies’ products across a wide range design and performance criteria. The research report “Active RFID Systems: A comparative technical evaluation of RFTRAQ products & solutions” by Dr David Nugent, Elucidare, revealed features the solutions. These include:
- The long symmetric read/write range of the firm’s active RFID tags. With a 400 m range, the operating distance of its tags is four times further than comparable UHF tags;
- Active RFID tags can remotely or automatically change RF frequencies across all three regional (Asia, US and Europe) UHF bands (902 MHz, 915 MHz, 868 MHz), bypassing concerns about standards and interoperability;
- Active RFID tags have the availability of multiple channels within each of these frequencies, delivering very high levels of capacity (number of tags that can be read per second) and a variety of other features as a result;
- The IP addressability of the company’s hardware enables remote access to individual active RFID tags and readers, enabling them to be managed and reconfigured remotely once they are deployed in the field;
- Compliance and certification with the recently changed European Technical Standards Institute (‘ETSI’) guidelines.
Douglas Hogg, CEO of RFTRAQ said: “RFID has been much-debated in recent years while its commercial deployment has been relatively slow. Due to the demanding and relentless nature of the printing and paper industries, their supply chain is already ahead of the curve in active RFID adoption.
It is now time for broader enterprises to move beyond the 20th century barcode legacy and experience the tangible and immediate benefits which active RFID provides. We have taken a unique approach to developing our technology designing it in such a way that it is in effect an extension of our software and so can be dropped into any TCP/IP network. The brightest engineering and technology minds coupled with client-driven requirements have ensured that we only deliver solutions which provide the performance and versatility demanded in the commercial world.”
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