Murata Developing Small On-Metal Tag for Surgical or Industrial Tool Tracking

Murata Manufacturing is introducing early versions of a new on-metal tag to ease the use of passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tracking on metallic items. The small tag is designed predominantly for use in managing surgical tools, but could also work with other tools or small metallic products. Murata is also offering middleware known as RFID System Administrator (RSA), which was originally developed and sold by ID-Solutions, which Murata acquired in June 2017. RSA supports data connection between companies' existing IT systems and the RFID readers and printers that are being used to read the ultra-small and on-metal tag.