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12x iPhone NFC Range – Tiny 1-inch Tag – Old iPhone

January 16, 2026

12x iPhone NFC Range – Even With Older iPhones In 2025, Apple announced that future iPhones may increase native NFC read distance from approximately 5 mm to 20 mm. While that improvement is notable, don’t wait for new hardware to benefit from extended NFC performance. Get up to a 12x iPhone NFC Range now. Today, even with older iPhones, you achieve up to a 12x iPhone NFC Range—simply by using the right NFC tags. Get Extended NFC Range Now – Don’t Wait for New iPhones First, many people assume NFC

Time Clock Uses Employee ID – Badge Has RFID – Easy Solution

January 5, 2026

Time Clock Uses Employee ID – Badge Has RFID Your Time Clock Uses Employee ID but Your RFID badge has a different number. Many modern time and attendance systems—like Workday, Workforce.com, Buddy Punch, QuickBooks Time (formerly TSheets) and other enterprise time clocks—use Employee ID as the required input for clock-in and clock-out. However, physical access credentials/badges use a different value for the RFID number, not the employee ID itself. This mismatch creates a common and frustrating problem: The time clock uses Employee ID, but the badge only presents an RFID

Badge Reader for Mobile Credential Check-In & Physical Badges

December 23, 2025

RFID-NFC Badge Reader for Mobile Credential Check-In Mobile credential check-in projects often don’t fail because of technology — they fail because real environments aren’t uniform. Employees arrive with phones, watches, plastic badges, and edge cases that don’t fit cleanly into “mobile-only” solutions. If your check-in or access system can’t handle mobile wallet credentials and physical badges from the same reader, it creates friction, delays, and unnecessary support overhead. The Problem: Credential Fragmentation at the Door Most organizations operate in a mixed state: Some employees use Apple Wallet or Google Wallet

Visitor Pre-Registration: The #1 Way to Streamline Visitor Check-In

December 2, 2025

Visitor Pre-Registration | Why Pre-Register Visitors Visitor pre-registration streamlines visitor check-in eliminating the inconvenience of paper visitor logs. In today’s modern workplace, first impressions matter — your visitor check-in process says a lot about your organization. Paper sign-in sheets, and phone calls or pages announcing visitors, and hand-written badges send the wrong message. Optimize visitor and contractor check-in with visitor pre-registration. Visitor pre-registration provides guests, contractors, and vendors information before they arrive. This simple digital step transforms the visitor experience — improving security, efficiency, compliance, and safety. In this post

On-Site Emergency Headcount: Accounting for Staff, Visitors & Contractors in Real Time

October 27, 2025

On-Site Emergency Headcount for Staff, Visitors & Contractors When an emergency happens, time is the most critical factor for on-site emergency headcount. Safety leaders need to know exactly who is onsite, whether they have reached safety, and who may still need assistance. Yet many organizations still depend on outdated emergency headcount processes built only around employees — leaving visitors and contractors unaccounted for when it matters most. Modern facilities are dynamic workplaces, often with multiple buildings over a large area. On any given day, your site may host: Full-time and

Best Ridership RFID Reader – Thousands Used Daily

August 25, 2025

Best Ridership RFID Reader – idChamp® NF4x Using the best Ridership RFID reader keeps transit moving fast and efficient. That’s why you see many ridership agencies using the idChamp® NF4x smart card/NFC badge reader. You’ll also find the NF4x reads mobile credentials in Apple and Google wallet, so riders use iPhone & Android for ridership. Ridership teams like many benefits of the idChamp® NF4x RFID-NFC reader, here are a few: Reliability – Units run for years without maintenance Security – ‘Direct mode’ insures badge readers read only specified badge types

Best iPad RFID Reader | Hardware and Apps

August 15, 2025

Best iPad RFID Reader | Scanfob® and idChamp® Brands You found the best iPad RFID reader, that also works on iPhone. First, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) comes in two common forms UHF (Ultra-High Frequency) and NFC (Near Field Communications). You’ll see NFC built-in to iPhone and Android devices. Typically UHF is long range, and NFC is short range, yet there are near-field UHF solutions. See this example near-field UHF solution using the Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e reader with UHF Viewfinder Antenna. iPad Wireless RFID Reader | Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e You’ll often see a common

How To Lock NFC Tags On iPhone

August 6, 2025

Easily Lock NFC Tags On iPhone With This App How To Lock NFC Tags On iPhone. Perhaps you know how easy it is to write NDEF data on NFC tag using iPhone. Use apps like NFC Read Write, and devices like the idChamp® NF4x. As you know malicious actors change NFC tags for malevolent reasons or even to be mischievous, you need to lock your NFC tags. You easily lock NFC tags on iPhone using NFC Read Write app’s Protect tag option. NFC Read Write App Reads NFC Tags With

Track Trainings with RFID Check-in | Improve Productivity and Compliance

August 4, 2025

Track Trainings with RFID How Important is it to Track Trainings with RFID for Compliance, Productivity, and a Skilled Workforce In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, employee training is more than just a professional development tool—it’s a strategic necessity. Whether you’re in healthcare, manufacturing, finance, or tech, tracking employee training is essential not only for regulatory compliance but also for boosting productivity and ensuring your workforce skills to drive innovation and growth. Track Trainings with RFID to achieve these goals. Compliance: Protecting the Company from Legal and Financial Risks Many

Emergency Headcount Via Access Control

July 19, 2025

Emergency Headcount Via Access Control | Hartmann-Odyssey Do emergency headcount via access control systems with Cloud-In-Hand Emergency Headcount integration to the ACS. Here you see Hartmann-Odyssey Access Control System (ACS), other ACSs are similar. Contact Serialio.com to see how this works with your Access Control System. Set Access Control System In Cloud-In-Hand Stratus-io Emergency Headcount First open your Cloud-In-Hand® Stratus-io Emergency Headcount account and open ACCOUNT > ACCOUNT SETTINGS. Next verify your access control system (ACS) is selected in the Emergency Event Data drop-down, this is enabled for you by

Our Testimonial

We prisoner/inmate checking with Android NFC Gears and iScanBrowser with an in-house application at our county jail. Guards check inmates every 30 min by scanning an NFC puck by each door using built-in NFC on the smartphone. This gives us accurate records for all prisoner/inmate checks and insures compliance with inmate safety policy. This solution… Read more “Prisoner/Inmate Checking With NFC”

Our boutique private school time and attendance uses Cloud-in-Hand® Stratus-io Time and Attendance. Our school’s students scan RFID badges for attendance logging using the idChamp® NF4x RFID badge reader. It’s so simple all of our very young students easily learned and use it without effort or confusion. Stratus-io Time and Attendance program is easy to… Read more “Time and Attendance Easy-To-Use For Young Students”

Starport Technologies encodes 10 million RFID tags per month, sometimes UHF reader must ignore unwanted nearby UHF tags. Prior to encoding some UHF tags we do printing. We use Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e UHF RFID readers to quickly spot check around voided tags to insure the encoding is done to the proper tags. Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e UHF RFID… Read more “Unwanted Nearby UHF Tags Ignored Using Scanfob® Ultra-RE40e”

Sanders Roth - VP
Starport Technologies

Innova Zones was approached by a customer looking to track RFID i-Safe Tags to ensure compliance with safety gear requirements within their facility. Unsure if it was possible, we sent a tag to Serialio, who quickly and expertly helped us setup the idChamp® Smart Credential Readers to read iSafe tags. Thanks to Serialio, we have… Read more “Read RFID i-Safe Tags”

Eastland Dunavin
Innova Zones

We use SerialMagic Keys Professional Android to connect with the HPR Lite Handheld PIT Tag Reader. SerialMagic Keys Professional is exceptionally easy to use. SerialMagic Keys Professional quickly and easily posts scan RFID tags to all apps that take keystrokes. Post many types of RFID tags: ISO 11784/11785 compliant FDX-B and HDX, FDX-B Fastag, FDX-B… Read more “HPR Lite Handheld PIT Tag Reader – Android”

USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center

Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid on iPad & iPhone is an unmatched data collection solution. Form-A-Feed uses this solution successfully for years. Serialio support has been unmatched by any supplier. The Support Team is super responsive, and the Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid solution always works. Mobile Grid is so reliable, when our Microsoft based solution fails, Serialio is… Read more “Unmatched Data Collection Solution – Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid”

Martin Tandsater
Form-A-Feed, Inc.

The Toshiba Team spent months searching for the best electronic emergency headcount software for our large facilities. Toshiba needed emergency mustering Roll Call ensuring employees, visitors, and contractors are all safe and accounted for during an Emergency. Serialio was one of many companies we reached out to, and we’re so thankful we did! The Cloud-In-Hand… Read more “Emergency Headcount Software 1-Million-Square-Foot”

Derius Goudeaux - Safety Manager
Toshiba

Our search for mobile order for sales reps and trade shows solution ended when we found Cloud-In-Hand® Mobile Order. Mobile Order is a terrific application replacing our last ordering solution.  We deployed to our outside sales staff and use it for our trade shows on iPads & iPhones.  We were up and running in record… Read more “Mobile Order For Sales Reps and Trade Shows”

Scott Bonora - Director of Operations
Phillips International, Inc.

In 2019, we needed a reliable and cost-effective method of enabling RFID scans on a tablet for a custom RFID time clock application on Windows Surface Pro we developed.  We were fortunate enough to find SerialMagic Professional and the idChamp® RFID Smart Card Badge Reader.  Serialio assisted us with the software and hardware needed to… Read more “Enable RFID Scans On Windows Surface Pro For Time Clock Application”

Russell Hopkinson - Senior Engineer

University of Wyoming Vending Services has used the BlueSnap M6A Dex for vending machine service for vending machine DEX service for over two years. VendSys initially recommended we purchase the BlueSnap DEX Kit and we’re very happy we did. UW Vending has full-time, employees managing students who are route drivers. I can confidently say that… Read more “Vending Machine DEX Service With iPhone-Android-BlueSnap”

Bill McCleary - Manager Vending Services
University of Wyoming