RFID, explained from tag to reader
Escort Memory Systems and industrial RFID
Readers, antennas and tags that identify parts on a production line, pallets at a dock door and patients in a ward - and the software and training that make them work together.
Radio frequency identification reads a tag without line of sight and without touching it. The guides on this site explain the parts of an RFID system, where it is used and how the EMS range fits in - in plain language, one topic per page.
Guides
Topic areas
Three places to start
RFID tags
Passive, active and rugged industrial tags - what they store and how far they can be read.
RFID software
Middleware and tracking software that turns tag reads into inventory you can trust.
RFID applications
Supply chains, hospitals, retail and factories: where RFID replaces the bar code.
Services and custom training
EMS supports installations from the first antenna test to the running system - and trains the people who use it. EMS services · Custom training
In brief
RFID
RFID shares an idea with the bar code: a label that identifies an object. But the tag answers by radio, so a reader can capture hundreds of items at once, through packaging and without a line of sight.
An RFID system has three parts - the tag, the reader with its antenna, and the software that makes sense of each read.
