New UHF RFID Tag Can Be Read On and Around Metal

Taiwan's Securitag Assembly Group (SAG) has built its company history around solving radio frequency identification technology challenges, such as difficult form factors and reading environments. This year, the firm has developed the Overmolded Uni Metal Tag to bring on-metal RFID reading to users that had previously not been able to make RFID technology work. The tag uses a metal object to which it is attached as an RF antenna, and can be mass-produced on rolls. It is being used in the industrial and logistics sectors, as well as by manufacturers to track work-in-progress and enable assembly automation.