RF CODE PRODUCT OVERVIEW

RF Code provides an active RFID-enabled infrastructure for both real-time asset management and environmental monitoring across the entire enterprise. Using active RFID as the enabling technology to automate asset monitoring, RF Code solutions eliminate the traditional costly, time consuming and inaccurate asset and environmental monitoring process. Customers know, in real-time, precise and actionable information about the location, status and state of their physical assets. Having such dynamic asset information instantly and at all times leads to better decision making about asset inventory. The result is better audit compliance, inventory accuracy, security and environmental status awareness. And typically at a cost lower than any other solutions. Moreover, ROI usually is achieved within a year.

Tags
All RF Code asset and sensor tags feature encoded radio transmissions, low power consumption for long battery life and reduced maintenance costs, and superior anti-collision technology for high-tag densities. Tags can include motion and tamper detection sensors, customizable beacon rates, and a broad variety of mounting and enclosure options.

Readers
RF Code’s family of active readers are used in a variety of environments and situations that call for asset tracking. When deployed in concert with RF Code Active RFID tags, our readers give customers an unparalleled asset tracking solution that provides location precision for all tagged assets, from the rack-level, through the room-level, to the extended enterprise. Our readers are easily installed and work well in both wired and wireless network environments.

Software
RF Code’s software products work in conjucntion with RF Code's tags and readers to provide complete real-time asset management and environmental monitoring solutions, providing up-to-the minute information about asset locations, movement, security and environmental status, without requiring any manual labor to gather this information.

RF CODE TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

RF Code helps you to better manage the time and cost of managing your assets and monitoring the environmental conditions that surround them. We do that by leveraging active RFID to produce wire-free, real-time, low cost and secure solutions that automate the asset management and environmental monitoring processes. RF Code solutions are:

Adaptive.
RF Code solutions are comprised of components (tags, readers and software) that adapt to a customer’s specific need: From a wide variety of tag and reader form factors to software that is easily configurable to meet a customer’s asset management needs.

Fully automated. With RF Code, you no longer have to “do inventory,” you always “have inventory,” in real time and updated automatically every 10-seconds.
Fully open. RF Code open access to our readers and software. Link directly to the readers, or select the software interface layer(s) that meet your system needs.
Ultimate flexibility. RF Code’s software schema is very user-friendly for configuring and editing custom data fields. The software database easily integrates into the market’s leading back end systems, adding automated real time asset information into such systems as Tivoli Maximo, HP’s AssetCenter and others.
Efficient.

While other companies build solutions based on science projects, RF Code concentrates on developing the most efficient technology.

Anti-collision technology. RF Code’s patented RF communication protocols provide best-in-industry performance in dense asset environments. A single reader can process up to 140 records per second: One reader will continuously monitor 1,400 tagged assets simultaneously, providing 10-second status updates.
Exception reporting. Readers can set to operate in “exception” reporting mode, where only changes in status will be reported. This eliminates the chaos of overreporting data and reduces network traffic. Redundant asset reports are eliminated, vastly simplifying history reports to focus only on when the status changes.
Battery power conservation. RF Code tags are almost always asleep (99.99% of the time). This translates to long battery life. The total transmission time for the standard tag (model M100-0010) is 9.34 seconds per day. Every 10 seconds, the tag will wake-up to broadcast a short sequence of pulses before going back to sleep.
Low Cost/Quick ROI.

RF Code solutions are “one and done.” Once you’ve deployed RF Code, that’s it. No having to scan tags ever.

Affordable solutions. The entry point for a complete Environmental Monitoring Starter Pack, from tag-to-glass, with customized system alerting, includes ten (10) environmental sensor tags, one (1) reader, and the Sensor Manager software application.
Scaleable solutions. RF Code works well either as a stand-alone or integrated solution. Start with your critical assets. Add environmental sensors. Write your own software to pull data directly from the readers (open API), or engage one of our partners to develop a customized solution, or add layers of RFC software to feed into third-party platforms.

Secure.
RF Code solutions are closed loop, for added security.

Dedicated frequency. RF Code systems operate at 433.92 MHz; the tags are one-way, transmit-only communicators; the readers are dedicated to monitoring for RFC tag transmissions. Add as much hardware as you like; it will not interfere with, or burden existing wireless systems and communications.
Secure transmissions – Tag messages are encoded 'license plate' IDs communicated through a series of RF pulses. The pulses themselves represent cryptic alphanumeric codes with no inherent meaning. RF Code readers decode and report the tag transmissions within their coverage zones. Reader operational settings are password protected and networked communications are protected to the same extent as the communication network.
Networked readers. RFC readers are networked devices designed for operation in both wired and wireless environments. Readers installed anywhere in the US can be configured to operate in real-time with the centralized application and asset database.
Open.

RF Code solutions are based on open technology standards and support open standards for easy integration.