Recently Ripple Glass launched a brand new commercial program, teaming up with local bars, restaurants, and breweries to help recycle more of Kansas City’s glass. When a new business signs up they receive either 64 or 96-gallon roll carts to fill with glass before their weekly pickup. Each bin has an embedded passive UHF (ultra-high frequency) […]
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Customer: A-Train Inc./ Rain Jewelry Collection Solution Components: Cloud-In-Hand® Mobile Order, Scanfob® Brand Laser Barcode Scanner Background Information: A-Train Inc. is a fashion jewelry wholesaler and is the parent company to Rain Jewelry Collection. In the last five years, our business has grown leaps and bounds as many people shifted their focus from precious metals
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Blue Pony is a solutions provider that creates stunning visual media that engages audiences. While developing a platform for a Major Communications Company (‘The Company’), Blue Pony wanted a solution to be able to capture lead information at trade shows using an iPad Mini 4 device. The platform included a CMS (content management system) where
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Anti-metal RFID tags (aka on-metal RFID tags) are specialized RFID tags that can be read from conductive surfaces, such as metal (something that regular RFID tags can’t do). The Problem Before you understand the problem, you need to understand how RFID tags work — When an RFID reader scans a tag, it sends a radio-frequency electromagnetic
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NFC is an acronym for Near Field Communication. NFC is a somewhat recent ‘labeling’ for a subset of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for short-range, wireless protocols. While NFC type RFID can apply to low frequency (LF), high frequency (HF), and ultra-high frequency (UHF) types, it’s most commonly associated with HF and used for close-range applications (hence the
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Although NFC is a subgroup of RFID technology, there are many varieties of NFC tags/inlays to choose from for different solution needs. This page is a summary guide showing common NFC inlay and tag type options available for many common RFID solutions and application needs. This article is a part of the series of articles intended
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There are many, many applications for NFC technology — from the chip embedded in your credit card to streamlining other technologies, such as Bluetooth pairing. The combination of close-range data transfer, ease of use, and versatility make NFC perfect for environments where data transactions have a requirement for location-specific access (for example, you don’t want
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Several factors affect RFID Read Range. RFID, NFC, or UHF tag read ranges. If you’re interested in understanding the various aspects that affect RFID read range to improve your RFID application or use case, continue reading! Tag Characteristics (SOAP) SOAP is an acronym for the various factors that affect an RFID tag’s performance; size, orientation, angle,
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Inlay The tag inlay consists of the integrated circuit (IC), an antenna, and a substrate to hold it all together. The inlay, on its own, is a fully functional tag; ready to be packaged into either a smart label or another casing. Integrated Chip (IC) The IC is an electronic circuit or microchip that is
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The latest standardization of the Ultra-High Frequency RFID spectrum is the GS1 UHF Gen2 protocol (ISO/IEC 18000-63), which defines the technical specifications (e.g., physical/logical interactions between devices, anti-collision algorithms, security commands, etc.) for RFID devices operating in the frequency of 860–860 MHz. The ITU designated UHF (Ultra-High Frequency) as the radio frequency range of 300 MHz to
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