Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags have become a key component of global commerce, enabling stakeholders to track physical assets quickly and reliably. Deployed properly, the tags could be used in a new class of wearable designed to track physical movement and shape change. RFID tags are cheap, battery-free and washable, which makes them appealing to developers.
RFID technology can easily be applied for applications that best fits your needs to track people using RFID. This technology comes in assorted flavors. The right RFID technology is ready now to track your personnel in an efficient, non-intrusive manner to help put people in the right place at the right time, while securing areas and increasing safety.
Advanced RFID Technology
RFID tags come in many different varieties to fit most applications which can co-exist with your current time tracking or door access system. Smaller form factors are available that can fit the size you need to ensure the tag is non-intrusive to the person’s task at hand. The tags can be fit with lanyards, Velcro, or other mechanisms to make the tags easily carried by the person being tracked. Once the person has the tag, that person can be tracked through a facility, a field, a tool yard, or anywhere needed.
Active RFID tags
Active RFID makes it easy to place
location tags through a facility. These tags are available in weather
proof casings enabling tracking in remote areas such a fields or
equipment yards. These location tags work on batteries and can be placed
from a few feet to a couple of hundred yards apart. An Active RFID
system can be implemented quickly enabling you to track people in
locations that you would have needed expensive GPS devices in the past.
With Active RFID, you can track people anywhere as they move freely
without the need for portal technology.
Passive RFID tags
For applications where people are tracked through doorways and other narrow pathways, portals are still very applicable. Passive RFID tags are very inexpensive and come in many form factors out of the box. Antennas can be setup to easily detect RFID tags as they pass. This technology is very popular with many suppliers making it very competitive.
Varying RFID technologies are ready today to fit any application where you need to track people. RFID tags have come a long way with many different form factors to best fit the application.
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