Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

Benchmarking ODIN

Sunday, April 3, 2005 in Library

Looking to stem failure rates &emdash; sometimes as high as 50% &emdash; due to mismatched or out of synch RFID tags and readers, a Reston, VA company has developed a benchmark report that can assist end users in determining the right kind of tag and reader for their particular environment.

“One of the things we realized was that there are a lot of marketing claims out there and users had no way to differentiate one from the other,” said Bret Kinsella, vice president of operations and marketing for ODIN Technologies. “Every tag manufacturer said they had the best product, but there was no way to test this. It was a lot of trial and error with nothing based on RF science.”

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