Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

ODIN Performs European Benchmark Tests For RFID

Friday, June 29, 2007

Dulles, Va.-based RFID systems integrator ODIN Technologies this week completed a benchmark report based on the results of tests it performed on seven EPC Gen 2 UHF RFID interrogators, reports RFID Journal.

The readers were certified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to operate under current RF regulations in the European Union.

For the ninth installment of its benchmarking test series, designed to provide unbiased performance evaluation of RFID hardware, ODIN put each interrogator through a battery of tests, the Journal reports.

Six were performed in a controlled environment, while three were conducted inside a warehouse, with RF noise to determine the readers’ performance in a real-world environment, the Journal reports. [end] 

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