With its small size, the new rectangular-shaped, miniature inlay can be easily incorporated into smart labels or embedded into source tags used for authentication and brand protection of valuable products. It can also be incorporated into plastic cards for access control, applied to containers and totes for logistics automation, or used to track and manage important insurance, legal, or medical files.
Inlays consist of an integrated circuit, an antenna and require no batteries.
They can also be directly embedded into materials such as plastic, wood, and fiber, to create a hidden and durable ID tag. All models can be read with the same reader systems. More than 70 million Texas Instruments RFID tags are in use worldwide. In basic terms, RFID technology involves wireless communication between a transponder and reader unit. Signals from the reader unit instruct the transponder to transmit back stored data, which is then used to activate a system, authorize a transaction, locate an item, or retrieve an asset profile.