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NFC vs. QR Codes: Everything You Need to Know

NFC vs. QR Codes: Everything You Need to Know

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on 29th Jun 2022

QR codes QR codes, or Quick Response Codes, have been around since 1994, but were not widely used until around 2010 - 2011 when smartphones with cameras were increasing in availability and popularit
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What is Passive RFID?

What is Passive RFID?

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on 13th May 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 read
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What is the SGTIN-96?

What is the SGTIN-96?

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on 11th Apr 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 EPC
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UHF RFID EPC Memory Bank: What is the CRC-16?

UHF RFID EPC Memory Bank: What is the CRC-16?

Posted by Suzanne Smiley on 4th Aug 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 eve
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