Optimum read ranges in challenging environments

Industry segments: Beauty & Personal Care, Healthcare

AD-163u8 inlays from Avery Dennison Smartrac are designed for tagging a wide range of items, particularly housewares, beauty & personal care, and pharmaceuticals.

Built for the UHF frequency band, the inlays feature a 60 x 4 mm antenna with a global design. It ensures excellent broadband performance (860-930 MHz) that can achieve up to 7 meters read distance on high dielectric materials such as glass, plastics and near liquid (results may vary).

The slender form factor and rectangular shape further contributes to the versatile use in retail oriented applications to increase inventory accuracy, improve supply chain agility, and enhance visibility across all channels.

AD-163u8 inlays are equipped with a UCODE 8 ICs from NXP, featuring 128 bits of EPC memory and a 48-bit unique serialized TID Number. The IC offers a Self Adjust feature to maximize product performance in challenging environments and has an improved read and write sensitivity and faster encoding speed compared to NXP UCODE 7. Delivery formats include Dry Inlay, Wet Inlay, and Pressure Sensitive Label.

Like all RFID products from Avery Dennison Smartrac, AD-163u8 inlays are manufactured according to the industry’s highest quality standards, as confirmed by the RFID Lab at Auburn University: The inspection body awarded Avery Dennison its first comprehensive and significant ARC accreditation for quality.

Excellent global performance even on difficult-to-tag materials

Industry segments: Automotive, Events, Sports, Gaming, Industrial Applications, Logistics

Avery Dennison Smartrac Dogbone™ inlays and tags are designed for global supply chain, industrial, RTI and sports timing applications, and offer excellent performance in demanding environments and on different materials.

Dogbone inlays and tags have a good tolerance to the detuning effect of highly di-electric materials, providing effective global performance even on difficult-to-tag materials. They are available with different Ic’s (see below).

The inlay is size-optimized for 100 mm / 4 inch wide converted labels, and is available in dry, wet and paper tag delivery formats.

The inlays and tags are compliant with ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management and ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management, which ensure a reliable and state-of-the-art product that meets a variety of application needs, enhancing RFID usage for difficult-to-tag materials.