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RFID Tags

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DanW85

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Hi everyone,

what we were looking at doing at work as useinf RFID tags embeded into computers and equipment over say £300, so that when we walk into a room we can take an inventory of the computers. Because at the moment we have quite a few computers moving about he place that we don't know about.

Is this at all possible?


Cheers,
Dan
 
How much inventory do you have?

Do a trial run and see how things go, look for a company in your area that can work on this with you and that has knowledge in RFID solutions.
 
inventory... I'd say 200-300 computers, then all the lab equipment. I suppose the university might know a bit more about RFID tags and people that can help with them.
 
I interviewed at a company who's owner was into art.

His collection lined the walls of the rather large headquarters building.

I was told that each piece has a chip embedded in it so all they need to do in drive their golf cart around and they can take inventory.

This was a few years ago, so it may have been a different technology, but sounds like what you're trying to do.
 
We use it in our backup tapes.. so it alerts us if one has been taken out of site... forces us in lock down mode.. and its also useful to track when locating the tape in storage..
 
If I remember correctly SAP has a RFID integration of sorts but if your company doesn't currently use SAP then I don't think it would be worth the cost to implement since SAP is big $$$$
 
thanks for the replies guys. iI don't know a lot about the RFID tech, so forgive me if I'm asking stupid questions, what is "SAP"?

theknight571: that's exactly what we want to do. But we'll be walking round instead. Can imagine getting the golf cart up a floor or two and throuhg swinging double doors.


GrammatonJP: that would be really handy for our tape backups too. So we know wher ethey are as apposed to where the system says they are 😀

How does you system go into lock down? Are there RFID readers on the doors to your machine room or something?



Cheers,
Dan
 
Originally posted by: DanW85
thanks for the replies guys. iI don't know a lot about the RFID tech, so forgive me if I'm asking stupid questions, what is "SAP"?

theknight571: that's exactly what we want to do. But we'll be walking round instead. Can imagine getting the golf cart up a floor or two and throuhg swinging double doors.


GrammatonJP: that would be really handy for our tape backups too. So we know wher ethey are as apposed to where the system says they are 😀

How does you system go into lock down? Are there RFID readers on the doors to your machine room or something?



Cheers,
Dan
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Well... the building is huge, and he has a very large collection.

I'm assuming they had elevators big enough for the golf carts... they had golf carts on each floor... or he was just blowing smoke up my backside...lol

 
Originally posted by: theknight571
Originally posted by: DanW85
thanks for the replies guys. iI don't know a lot about the RFID tech, so forgive me if I'm asking stupid questions, what is "SAP"?

theknight571: that's exactly what we want to do. But we'll be walking round instead. Can imagine getting the golf cart up a floor or two and throuhg swinging double doors.


GrammatonJP: that would be really handy for our tape backups too. So we know wher ethey are as apposed to where the system says they are 😀

How does you system go into lock down? Are there RFID readers on the doors to your machine room or something?



Cheers,
Dan
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Well... the building is huge, and he has a very large collection.

I'm assuming they had elevators big enough for the golf carts... they had golf carts on each floor... or he was just blowing smoke up my backside...lol
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Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Beware that the fail rate of RFID tags is approximately 50%.
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Proof?

This may have been true in the infancy of the passive tag, but now, tags are much more reliable.
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This is just what I've been told by the guy that is implementing RFID here are our site.
 
IIRC, did some research on RFID for the same purpose and found out that RFID is still in its infancy and the scan range is still just a few inches. Ex. Boxes going down a conveyor belt with scanners on BOTH sides of the belt will most likely get scanned.

We were going to do this for computer equipment as well as inventory for items on ambulances and fire trucks. All manufacturers told us that it pretty much has to be line of sight and only within a few inches. So it wouldn?t scan one item behind another etc.

I did tons of research on this a few months ago and don?t figure much has changed. Most manufacturers hate that IBM commercial where it shows the truck in the middle of nowhere etc. They say that is still impossible with the current technology.

This is for passive tags since active tags are very expensive, for local governemnt anyway.
 
Originally posted by: Winchester
IIRC, did some research on RFID for the same purpose and found out that RFID is still in its infancy and the scan range is still just a few inches. Ex. Boxes going down a conveyor belt with scanners on BOTH sides of the belt will most likely get scanned.

We were going to do this for computer equipment as well as inventory for items on ambulances and fire trucks. All manufacturers told us that it pretty much has to be line of sight and only within a few inches. So it wouldn?t scan one item behind another etc.

I did tons of research on this a few months ago and don?t figure much has changed. Most manufacturers hate that IBM commercial where it shows the truck in the middle of nowhere etc. They say that is still impossible with the current technology.

This is for passive tags since active tags are very expensive, for local governemnt anyway.
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aah... right, yeah I doubt whether passive tags would work. How expensive are we talking for pasive/semi-passive tags in the US?
 
Originally posted by: DanW85
Originally posted by: Winchester
IIRC, did some research on RFID for the same purpose and found out that RFID is still in its infancy and the scan range is still just a few inches. Ex. Boxes going down a conveyor belt with scanners on BOTH sides of the belt will most likely get scanned.

We were going to do this for computer equipment as well as inventory for items on ambulances and fire trucks. All manufacturers told us that it pretty much has to be line of sight and only within a few inches. So it wouldn?t scan one item behind another etc.

I did tons of research on this a few months ago and don?t figure much has changed. Most manufacturers hate that IBM commercial where it shows the truck in the middle of nowhere etc. They say that is still impossible with the current technology.

This is for passive tags since active tags are very expensive, for local governemnt anyway.
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aah... right, yeah I doubt whether passive tags would work. How expensive are we talking for pasive/semi-passive tags in the US?
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I think they started ~ $1 each.
 
*might be worth it on the more expensive items. They might consider spending £300/400 on the tags. Why didn't do it in the end? Too much equipement to tag?

Cheers guys you've been a great help thus far,
Dan
 
There is a company RF Code here in Las Vegas that does RFID work.

About 10 years back, I did some work for a company (as a sub-subcontractor) in Boca Raton, Fl that developed RFID to track computer equipment through a building. If the equipment was not authorized to leave a given area, the magetic doors would not be allowed to open.
 
By the looks of that article the memory sport wont do quite what I want. For a start I don't need high bandwidth, and
We don't want to increase the range of contact...We think it's just right.
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