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RFID

GSI’s radiofrequency identification (RFID) systems are revolutionizing the way businesses track goods and manage inventory. The systems use tags with embedded microchips and printed antennas to transmit information via radio waves.

Our passive RFID tags transmit data when activated by a reader.

A passive RFID tag is does not contain a battery; the power is supplied by the reader. When radio waves from the reader are encountered by a passive RFID tag, the coiled antenna within the tag forms a magnetic field. The tag draws power from it, energizing the circuits in the tag. The tag then sends the information encoded in the tag's memory.

The advantages of passive RFID tags include, not having a battery, they have a useful life of twenty years or more. Passive RFID is typically less expensive to manufacture and the tag can be much smaller, with almost unlimited applications in consumer goods and industrial/inventory processes.

Our next-generation Battery-assist tags feature a printed battery that enables them to monitor, process, store, and transmit data over extended ranges.

GSI Advantages

  • Unique production capabilities — GSI can place microchips, SMT components and batteries in a single process pass, dramatically shortening production time.
  • Large scale production — GSI’s web press allows us to meet production needs of any size, quickly and efficiently.
  • Thin (finished label approx. 1.0 mm)
  • Cost effective
  • Environmentally friendly for carefree disposal

Added advantages of passive RFID tags:

  • Capable of printing LF, HF and UHF compatible tags
  • Multiple press capacity - 20 and 14 inch maximum web widths
  • Excellent multiple color-to-color print pass registration
  • Slit down to individual rolls or supplied in production web width rolls or sheets for delivery of both prototype and production volumes
  • Can process a variety of printable substrates including paper, PET and PVC

Added advantages of Battery-assist tags:

  • Greater reliability in challenging RF environments
  • Transmit easily with ranges greater than 10 meters, on moving loads, or in RF contaminated environments.
  • Solves problem of reading labels at different angles or sandwiched between crates
  • Operational lifetime of several years