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February 08, 2007

Take a Tumble with RFID

-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer

With RFID being used for a wide range of applications, it follows that a demand exists for rugged, robust tags that withstand extreme conditions. Texas Instruments (TI) has stepped in serve this need with its Overmolded (OM) transponder line of RFID tags, which are:

[via Thomasnet News]

…designed to withstand extreme environments where temperature, high pressure and harsh chemicals inhibit the performance of line-of-sight automatic identification technologies such as bar codes and other less robust RFID tags.

The tags come with two memory options – 2K and 256 bits, they’re small and extremely durable and provide competitive read rates. Perfect for industrial laundry purposes – a fact that has been tried and tested with success in Norway, at the St. Olavs University Hospital in Trondheim.

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