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Axcess International is introducing new sensor capabilities for a comprehensive automated asset management system.
The new long range 'pick-to-light' enhancement for its 'Dot Micro-Wireless' tagging platform means individual goods and assets can be located quickly via a visual indicator, even when in large groups across the room.
Trade launch
The first units have shipped, and demonstrations will be conducted during RFID World's industry trade show at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Convention Centre. So-called "pick-to-light" systems are used throughout industry to visually locate and pick specific raw materials and streamline and speed enterprise processes, making them more productive and efficient.
Micro-Wireless systems inherently count and identify things within a few inches and at distances up to approximately 1000 feet. The Dot "pick-to-light" capability allows for mass placement of low cost tags for finding specific items in locations such as warehouses and data centres. Computers, servers and other IT equipment can be identified quickly using this method.
How it works
An EPC standard handheld reader, the kind used throughout the RFID equipped supply chain, is utilized to command the light on a specific tag to activate; thereby indicating to the naked eye which unit matches the requested selection.
According to Allan Griebenow, President and CEO for Axcess International, "This system has both the circuitry on-board and compatibility with the EPC C1G2 standard for supply chain RFID tagging, plus battery power on-board to be able to read tags from a long range."
Business benefits
Wireless unattended management of goods and assets enables real-time inventory transactions, automatic location determination, condition monitoring and theft prevention, providing dramatic savings in the management of assets and goods in the enterprise.
Axcess' Micro-Wireless implementation is based on a "dual-active" architectural design, where the wireless tags lie dormant until activated by a pre-programmed condition or by movement through a wireless activation field at a doorway or other control point. Alternatively, the tags can beacon at regular intervals for easy accounting. Axcess' battery-powered Dot tags include bar codes and short range Electronic Product Code (EPC) RFID capability along with long range transmission capability of up to 1000 feet.
Source: Axcess International Inc.
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