Tracking/Sortation System achieves 600 fpm read rate.
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Targeted for distribution centers, UHF RFID Sortation System tracks 2-3 ft totes with RFID tag affixed to bottom as they move over conveyor. It also determines order of totes on conveyor, allowing high-speed sortation. System includes industrial PC with touch screen and GUI. RFID reader is embedded in IO controller. System integrates into existing bar code scanning tunnels through communications, data aggregation, and network management interfaces.
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Accu-Sort's RFID High Speed Tracking and Sortation System Achieves Industry Leading 600 ft./min. Read Rate
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (January 11, 2005) -- Accu-Sort Systems Inc., a recognized leader in auto ID solutions, announced today that it has developed an UHF RFID sortation system capable of achieving a 600 ft. per min. read rate for use in a major parcel distribution hub.
Accu-Sort has leveraged its extensive experience in high-speed sortation using cameras to read bar codes to design an RFID system that meets the requirements of some of the most demanding distribution center applications. The system also seamlessly integrates into Accu-Sort's installed base of existing bar code scanning tunnels within these distribution centers, through common, communications, data aggregation and network management interfaces, easing deployment and maintenance.
In the distribution hub, the Accu-Sort system tracks 2-ft. to 3-ft. totes with an RFID tag affixed to the bottom as they move over a conveyor. The system has been validated at more than 600 ft. per min. with read rates in excess of 99%. The system not only reads RFID tags at this rate but determines the order of the totes on the conveyor, allowing the distribution center to perform high-speed sortation.
The system uses an industrial PC with a touch screen and graphical user interface. The RFID reader is embedded in the IO controller. The system is made possible in part due to a uniquely designed bottom-read antenna, which minimizes the conveyor bed modifications. Since antennas cannot read through metal, Accu-Sort developed a thin-profile antenna solution that reads the bottom of totes and boxes without the need to cut holes in the conveyor.
"Initiatives like these have been made possible due to Accu-Sort's s investment in a state-of-the-art RFID lab, allowing us to push the envelop in developing advanced high-speed tracking and sortation applications," said Frank LaBarbera, director of RFID product management at Accu-Sort Systems, Inc., "Ultimately this is a tremendous benefit to our customers, and the industry as a whole, as solutions will now become available that can dramatically improve supply chain management inventory tracking processes through the use of RFID."
About Accu-Sort
Accu-Sort Systems is a pioneer in reliable auto ID and high-speed compliance solutions with more than three decades of experience deploying and supporting scanning and tracking solutions in distribution, warehousing, manufacturing and retailer environments. The company is also an established provider of convergent RFID and bar code systems with more than 40 RFID installations. Contact: 1-877-ASI-RFID or www.accusort.com.
