Confidex Introduces durable on-metal RFID tag

Confidex, a fast growing company with unique expertise in RFID design, manufacturing and engineering, has announced the introduction of the company’s new Confidex Halo passive UHF EPC Generation 2 RFID tag.  The new RFID tag, which has been undergoing customer trials for retail logistics and aerospace applications, combines advanced lightweight materials and a small footprint with durability and on-metal performance.

‘Our current on-metal tags have been proven to exceed customer expectations for durability and performance,’ said Torbjrn Andersson, Confidex vice president, sales & business development.  ‘By working closely with our customers and authorized solution partners, we have developed an encapsulated on-metal tag that meets our high standards and supports a broad variety of challenging applications.’

Customer trials currently underway using Confidex Halo tags include tracking returnable transit items and storage shelf identification. The Confidex Halo is also being used to support industry initiatives for tracking parts on commercial aircraft in the Aerospace industry.

‘Confidex Halo was ideal in terms of size and performance for our needs,’ said Sven Jrgens, RFID project manager from REWE Group in Germany. ‘The tags are used to identify shelf locations of goods by fork-lift readers in our management system and the innovative new tags, together with the reader antennas, which Confidex also supplied to us, are expected to provide better system reliability.’

The Confidex Halo RFID tag measures 14mm x 60mm x 11.7mm high and is manufactured using high strength temperature-resistant plastic that provides IP68 protection. The product has been designed to be easily attached by adhesive or magnetic tape, and also with cable ties for example to metallic cables or pipes. The new design also makes it ideal for tracking IT assets such as blade servers and network routers.

With a read range of 3-4 meters on-metal, the Confidex Halo RFID tag works well with both fixed and handheld readers. Offered initially with Impinj Monza 96-bit EPC-compliant silicon, Confidex will offer a variety of standards–based, extended memory options as silicon providers make those chips available. 

‘The aerospace industry is very interested in passive, EPC standard extended memory tags,’ said Kevin Donahue, Confidex business development director, North America.  ‘We are working closely with our silicon providers and leading reader manufacturers to deliver tags that meet the specific needs of this important industry segment’.

The Confidex Halo tag joins the growing family of Confidex RFID tags, which includes Ironside, Survivor, Steelwave, and the recently announced Corona and Cruiser. Confidex RFID tags have been successfully used in a variety of demanding applications such as identification of IT assets, vehicles, rail cars, and reusable transit items, in motion, from arctic to subtropical regions.