For Real-time Data Accuracy for Asset Tracking and Inventory

ProScan Mobility provides a complete RFID solution to suit its customers' applications and environments. This includes products ranging from antennas, handheld readers, tags, inserts and smart labels, fixed readers, vehicle mount readers to RFID printers. All technologies are supported by ProScan's RFID implementation services to guarantee system performance, all from a single source.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is one of the fastest growing and most beneficial technologies being adopted by businesses today. Adoption of this automatic data-collection (ADC) technology has recently been fuelled by the establishment of key standards, retailer and government mandates, improved technology performance and falling implementation costs.

RFID is a class of technology that exchanges  data wirelessly. Data is written to and read from a chip attached to an antenna that receives RF signals from a read/write device—commonly called a reader, encoder or interrogator. Data is exchanged automatically, with no operator intervention required to trigger an RFID read.

RFID Advantages

• RFID enables monitoring and data
• collection in environments unfit for workers, because tag reading requires no labour.
• More than a thousand reads can be performed each second, providing high speed and great accuracy.
• The data on an RFID tag can be altered repeatedly
• RFID does not require direct line of sight between tag and reader, making it suitable for many applications where bar codes are not viable.
• Thousands of organisations in many industries have deployed RFID’s advantages to develop operations that monitor processes, provide real-time data accuracy, track assets and inventory, and reduce labour requirements.
• RFID technology can be used in conjunction with bar code systems and Wi-Fi networks.

RFID Tags

Tags are also classified as passive, semi-passive or active. Passive tags, by far the most common, receive transmission power from the reader. All RFID smart labels are passive. Active tags include a battery to power transmissions, which also provides a longer range. This makes active tags larger and more expensive than passive tags. Semi-passive tags communicate like passive tags, but also have a battery. Their range falls between passive and active, and though their batteries have a long life, their size is comparable to passive tags.

Passive RFID

Through its technology partners, ProScan distributes Intermec's passive RFID suite of products, which  support EPC Gen 2, and ISO 180006b and 6c standards and meet ETSI and FCC RF certifications. Intermec equipment is also certified compatibility with enterprise software such as IBM®, SAP®, Oracle®, Sun, Microsoft® BizTalk Server, ensuring seamless integration for customers. Intermec's innovative product designs help meet the needs of particular use cases such as the RFID Forklift with integrated computer, reader and antennas.

One of the most effective applications for RFID readers are mounted on forklifts. The advantage is that there are typically fewer forklifts in a facility than dock doors, so fewer readers are needed to cover a facility. Forklift mounted systems are also portable so that they can go to wherever they are needed.