What Affects RFID Read Range? 5 Tips on Improving Your RFID System's Read Range

Posted by Suzanne Gotfryd on Mar 12, 2024

Originally published 07/01/2013, Updated with new content, tips, & videos 03/12/2024 Your RFID reader is connected to your antennas, you've adjusted your power settings, and you've applied yo
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What's the Relationship Between Data Intelligence & RFID Technology?

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on Mar 01, 2024

As technology advances each year, new trends emerge like the  Metaverse and Generative AI that allow companies to grow in ways we never could have imagined. While some trends such as
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RFID Tag Labels: How do I Determine the Ideal Size?

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on Jan 15, 2024

As discussed in our article A Tag, a Label, an Inlay, there are quite a few names for RFID tags that all have slight differences based on the verbiage and context. For instance, an RFID inlay is ty
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What is RFID Used For? 12 RFID Applications

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on Oct 24, 2023

What is RFID Used For? 12 RFID Applications Ever since  Walmart's RFID mandate back in 2003, RFID has been successfully implemented in hundreds of applications across a large variety of indus
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RFID SOAP Series | 4 RFID Tag Factors that Affect RFID Read Range

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on Aug 01, 2023

A subsection of our popular article, 6 Factors that Affect RFID Read Range, these videos will focus on specifically RFID tag factors that are key considerations when purchasing RFID tags and p
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RFID Basics | How RFID Item Material Correlates to RFID Read Range

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on Jul 28, 2023

RFID Item Material & RFID Read Range Welcome to this quick video where we show how important RFID tag type and item material are to a successful RFID application.  Today we will be
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Smart Packaging - Using RFID to Connect Products to the Digital World

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on Oct 13, 2022

The term Smart Packaging describes the use of technology, indicators, or even chemicals to enable a specific functionality on or within a product’s packaging. Smart Packaging is used on a var
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How to Program an RFID Tag - 3 Step Tutorial

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on May 23, 2022

Most RFID tags are made up of three parts - the chip, antenna, and tag face or substrate. Each of these individual parts performs a specific duty in order to make the RFID tag work properly
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What is Passive RFID?

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on May 13, 2022

Passive RFID is a term used to describe RFID tags that do not have a battery or other internal power source. Instead of a battery, Passive RFID tags rely on the energy received from the RFID r
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What is the SGTIN-96?

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on Apr 11, 2022

SGTIN-96 is an encoding scheme that stands for Serialized Global Trade Identification Number and is sometimes called a serialized GTIN. The 96 in the name refers to the number of bits in the final
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Encoding RFID Tags with the Vulcan RFID UHF Tag Read & Write Software

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on Mar 16, 2022

Welcome to this video which will walk through Encoding an RFID Tag with the Vulcan RFID, UHF Tag Read and Write Software. To watch this video on YouTube,  click here. VIDEO
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UHF RFID EPC Memory Bank: What is the CRC-16?

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on Aug 04, 2021

In Class 1 Gen2 UHF RFID tags, a CRC-16 and a 16-bit Protocol Control (PC) precede the tag’s EPC number in the EPC memory bank, a requirement that was first outlined in Gen2 v1.1. If you have
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