RFID
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a new technology that’s undergoing rapid development. It’s been dubbed the successor to the barcode and uses radio signals to communicate. An object or person fitted with a tag, a tiny transmitter, is recognised as soon as it comes within range of an RFID reader, or antenna. The cheapest version, the passive tag, is powered by the reader. Summit uses two types of RFID: (Ultra) High Frequency, whereby the reader can pick up signals in a relatively large area, and Near Field Communication, whereby the reader can only read tags held very close to it, like with a (key)card reader.
For applications at exhibitions and events, (Ultra) High Frequency is perfect for narrow casting purposes. The major benefit to you as organiser of an exhibition, event or congress is that visitors with RFID badges are automatically scanned and can be individually targeted. The signal from a tag, one in a visitor badge for instance, can be scanned anything up to four metres away. This, incidentally, takes care of an important issue surrounding RFID: visitor privacy is not violated because visitors cannot be ‘followed’ beyond that four-metre radius. All our applications comply fully with privacy laws. Let us give you some examples of RFID in action.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a new technology that’s undergoing rapid development. It’s been dubbed the successor to the barcode and uses radio signals to communicate. An object or person fitted with a tag, a tiny transmitter, is recognised as soon as it comes within range of an RFID reader, or antenna. The cheapest version, the passive tag, is powered by the reader. Summit uses two types of RFID: (Ultra) High Frequency, whereby the reader can pick up signals in a relatively large area, and Near Field Communication, whereby the reader can only read tags held very close to it, like with a (key)card reader.
For applications at exhibitions and events, (Ultra) High Frequency is perfect for narrow casting purposes. The major benefit to you as organiser of an exhibition, event or congress is that visitors with RFID badges are automatically scanned and can be individually targeted. The signal from a tag, one in a visitor badge for instance, can be scanned anything up to four metres away. This, incidentally, takes care of an important issue surrounding RFID: visitor privacy is not violated because visitors cannot be ‘followed’ beyond that four-metre radius. All our applications comply fully with privacy laws. Let us give you some examples of RFID in action.
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