Confidex launches RFID tag for direct-on-metal labels

Confidex has launched SteelWing, a passive UHF C1G2 RFID tag able that can function on metal surfaces, traditionally a problem area for RFID applications.

With up to 10 meter (32ft) read range on metal surfaces, UHF Class 1 Generation 2 compliant Confidex SteelWing was designed to overcome the challenges of metal asset tagging. The light-weight tag has adhesive background and it can be directly attached on metal surface – without any extra spacer material.

SteelWing can also be attached to other materials, with a slightly reduced performance compared to metal surfaces. Wide-band Confidex SteelWing is equipped with NXP G2XM IC, which has extended user memory, and Confidex can deliver the SteelWings with pre-encoding or customer specific data showing visually the encoded data in barcode or human readable form.

SteelWing is said to be suited to various applications, such as industrial returnable transit item tracking and IT asset management, particularly when the use of hard tags is not justifiable due to cost, and when there’s no need for mechanical protection for the tag. Confidex says the new tag fills the gap in the market caused by the lack of suitable high-performance RFID labels for metal surfaces.

‘The feedback from our beta customers has been very promising as they needed a SteelWing type of product,’ said Hanna Kosunen, product line manager for hard tags and special labels at Confidex.

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