Asset Tracking That Delivers Privacy and Value

RFID technology raises asset tracking to new level. End users enjoy faster, seamless transactions that are more secure than currently used systems. These systems require the personal involvement of some individual such as a librarian, ticket agent or health-care professional. Libraries, pharmacies, entertainment venues who adopt RFID can benefit from secure wireless transfer transactions that deliver high return on investment.

Asset tracking based on Texas Instruments’ (TI) innovative RFID technologies can increase user throughput in libraries, ski resorts and concerts by shortening lines, controlling theft and locating misplaced property that has been smart-tagged.

In addition RFID smart tags can be customized with a wide variety of form factors for specific applications. TI’s broad product portfolio includes high- and low-frequency transponders to suit the needs of different applications.

In order to realize the full range of benefits of RFID brings, proper implementation is a critical to the success of any technology deployment. A technology company's experience and reliability are just as important as its ability to innovate -- and Texas Instruments has both.

Since 1989, TI has provided RFID solutions to a wide range of companies and institutions. TI co-invented the smart label form factor and has shipped more than 100 million smart labels to date.

A recent poll that spanned the RFID industry named TI #1 in thought leadership and as the industry's most desired business partner.

TI ensures privacy through a variety of technologies including encryption, chip disabling and factory-locked code -- an exclusive TI technology that allows for information customized to the needs of TI's customer and included on the RFID chip. Labels can be programmed with additional information such as type of media and storage location. TI's chips also support industry-specific privacy requirements such as National Drug Code (NDC) decommissioning specifications.

TI is unique in its decision to take control of the entire manufacturing process that results in the inlay that label converters use to make the tags. By manufacturing and assembling both the RFID chip and its antenna with TI’s patented laser tuning process, the inlays undergo complete functional and parametric testing in order to provide the high quality and consistent read performance that customers have come to expect from TI.