One-stop RFID

This allows goods to be tracked throughout their retail journey through warehouses or DCs, and from loading bays and storage areas in stores to front of store, checkout and store exit.

To achieve this, PervasID has added to its reader technologies for wide area and gate detection so that there are now four separate product groups which can operate either as stand-alone solutions or, as an integrated system.

The four product groups comprise:

• Dock Door Ranger which can detect moving items in bulk at high tag density in and out of a warehouse.
• Space Ranger which uses a network of low profile flat ceiling tile antennas, each of which are located discretely at intervals across the shop floor or stockroom’ reducing the required number antennas needed by a staggering 75% as well as reducing the coaxial cabling requirement by 50%.
• POS Ranger which can automatically detect and deactivate purchases at the Point of Sale, reducing wait times in checkout queues as well as reducing labour costs.
• Security Ranger – a passive anti-theft ceiling based security system suitable for large exit areas and delivering reduced false positives combined with higher detection rates. This new low cost “smart” solution is predicted to reduce shrinkage significantly.

All four product groups deliver 99%+ detection rates for passive RFID tags even when these are distributed over wide areas and in high tag density environments.