GAO on-metal passive UHF RFID transponder
04 March, 2011
category: RFID
GAO RFID launched its smart passive RFID transponder, model 136006. Designed for various indoor and outdoor applications, the RFID boasts a new type of tag antenna to offer read range and on-edge performance on metal, regardless of tag orientation.
It has a battery life of up to five years and has an IP67 protection rating allowing it to perform well even in harsh environments. It can be mounted on reusable totes, heavy machinery, trucks, rail cars and cargo containers with adhesives, screws or plastic cable ties.
This passive ultra-high frequency RFID transponder operates at a frequency range of 902 to 928 MHz for North America and a frequency range of 865 to 868 MHz for both Europe and India.
It features a low turn-on threshold, multi-stage wake-up, high receive signal sensitivity and backscatter efficiency and built-in application-specific security. It offers data rates of 8 kb/s or 32 kb/s for backward link, and it also has a 60 kb user-rewriteable memory to store user information including e-manifest, maintenance records, custody chain and history.