EasyReader™

The RFID Challenge:

ODIN’s EasyReader™ was designed to accelerate and improve one of the biggest challenges faced by most initial RFID installations: configuring the RFID reader interrogation zones so that they will work in your environment and not interfere with each other. This is a challenge for all installations, but becomes an even greater problem as RFID systems scale and create more interference and cross-talk between readers. Add to this the hundreds and often thousands of parts that must be tracked in the implementation bill of material and you can see the mounting challenge. The state of the art had been to use a combination of spreadsheets, MS Word documents and proprietary reader software to record the solution configurations and bill of material and conduct trial-and-error testing. To make matters worse, all of the readers deployed have different specifications and manage data and testing in different methods creating inconsistencies and need for additional staff training.

The RFID EasyReader™ Solution

EasyReader™ enables RFID system configuration designers to lay-out a to-scale RFID solution complete with a facility diagram and bill of material record. It will also link bill of material items to specific installation locations and to testing data that can auto-generate an as-built or as-maintained specification into an easy to use PDF file. You can utilize the software to see how RF will propagate and then adjust settings and reader station locations to ensure proper system performance. While the tool is geared toward automating key design and testing activities, it has the added benefit of centralizing documentation and is a robust trouble-shooting and maintenance application. And, it is a common interface used across reader types so you can use a single common view of your implementation even if multiple reader manufacturers are deployed in your environment.

The RFID Solution Components

EasyReader™ is an installed software solution that can run on a standard laptop or other Windows or Java device.

The RFID Enabled Results

The solution has successfully reduced design and documentation time by more than 20-50% and acceptance testing time for an RFID solution implementation by 50%. EasyReader enables implementations to graduate beyond trial-and-error exercises to become scientifically designed, synchronized RFID networks viewable in to-scale facility layout topology.