RFID Solution Provider tell you how to select the right programmable RFID tags

Before start, a project needs to take a lot of things into consideration, especially for some customized products, like programmable RFID tags, RFID system, etc. Before you plan to buy RFID tags, maybe you only have some ideas without what’s kind of exactly RFID tags should be. However, how to select the right programmable RFID tags can be the key to this project.

Why? No matter how perfect your idea it is, without suitable RFID tags to be realized, your project can not move on. On the other hand, if selected the wrong tags, there are a lot of troubles waiting for you.

ZBTECH is an experienced RFID solution provider will share some programmable RFID tags with you.

Buy RFID tags do not care about the price only. Some RFID tags providers only quote you the lower price without asking you any questions related to your projects. Because they do not care about what will you to do, how to use it. The only thing they cared is selling you products, maybe not the right products.

You can find that many websites only display the RFID tags one by one, no application, no projects features. But we are different. We would like to ask our clients some questions, such as the application, function, working environment, etc. Our intention is to help you to select the right RFID tags.

Here we will list 4 industrials for your reference if you are in this industry, congratulation! If not, you can send an email, our experts will get back to you in details. Catherine@zbtechsz.com

          RFID tags for clothes

          RFID inventory management

          Outdoor RFID tags

          RFID retail solutions

RFID Tags for clothes

 

If you own the cloth brand, want to select an RFID inventory management tag. From monitoring manufacturer process to warehouse management, logistics, and retails. There is no doubt, the volume is large. You must take the cost into consideration. Also, the tag no needs very durable. We suggest UHF RFID label or sticker is workable.

Here give you some reason:

1, Low cost for large volume application.

2, Can stick on your original clothing tags or make it into paper RFID label.

3, UHF label can be tracking in bulk, save time. Easy for warehouse management and tracking.

4, Anti-fake, encryption is allowed.

5, If you want to make it interact with the end user, the dural frequency also workable. UHF for management & tracking, NFC for interaction with the end user by NFC mobile phone.

6, Pick the exact size and color your customer wanted out at once from a butch of clothes.

However, some brands just for a souvenir, such as Nike’s Jersey. Only NFC enable the chip for connecting with fans. They should be a washable tag, durable, and water-proof, even high-temperature resistance.

There is no doubt that the RFID label & sticker will not suitable anymore. At this time, we recommend silicone washable tag and pps water-proof tag.

Sewing inside the cloth, heat resistance of 120°, 130 times can be washed. Fans can get their NFC mobile phone close to the laundry tag, get the news immediately.

RFID inventory management

It’s mind-blowing to find items in a big warehouse or inventory management, especially in an urgent time.

Such as a customer said to your shopper, I like this cloth, do you have a bigger size?

The shopper confused, hmmm, I have to check it first, please wait for a moment.

In front of so many clothes, which one is the right? This is middle size, oh, that is a bigger size. Pick one out, oh, who mixed middle one in this bulk. 10 minutes past, 20 minutes past…

Finally, you got the one, but your customer has gone.

What a pity! What’s more, you even do not know how many potential clients missed during the 20 minutes. Also, a bad experience may from mouth to mouth, more potential clients may be lost.

For such single item tracking in the warehouse, RFID sticker also the first recommend. However, the shouldn’t be any metal aside.

If need tracking a whole set of the shelf, anti-metal RFID tag needed. Something like ABS anti-metal tag, epoxy shelf tag. Metal-mount RFID tags even on the metal surface, still workable. But the reading distance will be shorter.

Metal-mount RFID tags usually used in bigger warehouse, the library for the bookshelf, pallet inventory management, etc.

On the other hand, some ink provider will also use such tags with magnetic for inventory management. It’s can be multi-times use.

Now, do you have any idea about how to select the RFID tags for inventory management?

Outdoor RFID Tags

Outdoor RFID tags should take many factors into consideration.

One of the first choices you need to make is whether to go with active or passive RFID tags.

The first thing is to determine how long the reading distance should be.

Active RFID tags use battery-powered that continuously broadcast their own signal. Active RFID systems typically operate in the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band and offer a range of up to 100 m. In general, active tags are used on large objects, such as rail cars, big reusable containers, and other assets that need to be tracked over long distances.

Passive RFID tags, typically, passive low-frequency (LF) and high-frequency (HF) tags have a read range of up to 3 feet, while a simple passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) transponder can be read from 15 to 20 feet in free air.

However, with different size and material, the reading distance would be much different. What’s more, the RFID reader also plays a role.

Environmental Concerns

The environment plays a huge role in the type of RFID tags required, especially outdoors. We will show you an example.

RFID Seal & RFID Cable

For ways of usage and location, both RFID tags should be similar. The only thing is environment resistance. One of our clients wants to apply an RFID tag for water meter management outside the door. It’s a cold place in winter and very hot in summer, at first time, they decided to use RFID Cable. However, after a short period of rainy and snowy days, RFID Cable is easily being destroyed by Naughty boys.

After we ask our clients the details requests, we suggest RFID Seal, finally, solved their problems.

It’s easy to see that, for one-time use or a short time, RFID Cable would be more competitive. However, if used in villainous weather or long time use, RFID Seal would be more suitable.

RFID Retail Solutions

Many retailers want to use RFID tags for management purposes, but the first thing to be clear about is what you want to achieve. There are usually three kinds.

1, Inventory Management

If you want every product to be tagged and tracked, make sure your product has a certain value. If the value is too low, then use RFID tags, and your customers may not be able to accept substantial price increases. Jewelry, for example, is suitable for using UHF RFID tags. But most grocery stores still use bar codes.

2, Anti-thief

If you just want to use it to prevent theft, the EAS is a good choice for a low price. Using on clothing or glasses, it can be reused.

3, Price change in Bulk

For large supermarkets, store chains of price management, I think ESL can help you greatly. No more printing thousands of paper labels with prices and products written on them. You don’t have to pull an all-nighter to change the price tag. Not to worry about too many misplacing price tags resulting in complaints.

More surprisingly, ESL can help you promote, help you guide customers to buy products, help you get more customers back.

When you have finished reading this article I think you have some idea of how to choose the right label for your project. Of course, more importantly, will not spend money to buy some do not use the RFID tags.

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7 steps to cut down the communication time with RFID Tags factory

Many industrials see the advantages of RFID technology as compared to the simple bar-code. So that demand increased too much in recent years.

The RFID tag stored all the necessary information about a given pallet, box or product and was readable without line of sight. The time saved checking in shipments and waiting around for shipments to arrive decreased significantly. RFID enables companies to save money by utilizing time more efficiently.

However, before starting to use the RFID Technology, 7 factors to cut down the communication time with RFID tags factory, here is the list:

1/ Find out the problem you have which RFID tags factory can be solved.

#low efficiency, #untraceable, #human error

2/ Which objects or people you want to track.

#Metal, #liquid, #people access (wristband, Card)

3/ What distance each object or people need to be identified & tracked.

#Passive: LF/HF/UHF #Active (accuracy)

4/ What is the working environment.

#High temperature resistance, #water-proof, #outside

5/ Your budget for the project.

#one time use, #multi-time use, #large quantity, #small quantity

6/ Prepared the whole system

#Networking branches, #handhold or fixed

7/ Training of your employees

#Trainning course

Here we will explain one by one to you.

1/ Find out the problem you have which RFID tags can be solved.

Low efficiency

Time is money, save time means to get more profits, do you agree? But in many industrials, low efficiency is their pain spot.

In the supermarket, you feel anxious to see so many customers queue up. But you have no idea to make the cashier fast. Make the scanner facing directly to the barcode one by one. How many items customer buy, how many times the cashier need the scan.

In the warehouse, the workers should count items one by one, then write it down. At least 5-6 workers working for one or two days. At the same time, other processes have to stop it.

You will ask if RFID Technology can solve the problem of low efficiency? The answer is yes.

Stick a UHF label on each item, the reader can recognize multi labels at the same time (liquid & metal should deal with it separately). Means that collect the data of 20-30 items time is the same as collect one. In other words, you have to queue up for 20 minutes before, but now only 2 minutes. 5-6 workers cost two days before, now only one person for 2 hours. Let’s say goodbye to low efficiency.

Untraceable

Do you know the age of the fruiter tree, how about the harvest of each fruiter tree every year? Which one is more delicious and which fruiter tree should be weed out? Maybe you have no idea since there is no data for reference. There is no doubt that the land and resource are underused.

Do you want to know what in the container without opening it or checking the paper document? You may say, oh, no, I don’t have X-ray vision, I have to cost time to open it.

What’s the reason caused above problems? It’s untraceable.

RFID Technology also does not have X-ray vision, but it can tell you what inside only encoded in advance!

RFID Technology like the ID card for fruiter trees, encoding their age, name, the development of growing. Once you comparing those data file, you can pick up the good and bad. Make the most use of the land and resource.

Human error

Whether you encounter such thing, after waiting for a long time to queue up, the cashier tells you, sorry the price on the price label is wrong, maybe our sales put the wrong label.

I wondered how you felt about it?  Cost high and take so long time. But you can do nothing, human error is an inevitable and Very high probability.

However, human error can be reduced by RFID Technology dramatically. As for this problem, an electronic shelf label can solve it perfectly.

2/ Which objects or people you want to track.

Metal machine asset

Metal machine asset management is a heavy task for manufacturers, to make sure every process of production goes smoothly. Route checking is important. Stick a label on the machine, you will find if damaged you can get nothing about the check date. On the other hand, it’s limited to write down enough information.

You may want to use RFID Technology to solve this problem. It’s a wise choice. But you must choose anti-metal tags, or there is no use when sticking on the metal machine.  Also, do not use paper material, not durable and non-waterproof. ABS anti-metal tag would be a good choice, no matter from the use condition or cost. As many of our clients apply it for ink barrel management, container management I have to say it’s very smart.

Liquid

I have to say liquid products is really a challenge. RFID Label cannot workably stick on the bottle, but that is not mean cannot use RFID Technology to manage. Stick on the side of the bottle, make sure the chip and antenna not close to the bottle body. Then scan it, yeah, it’s working.

The other great function for liquid products is anti-fake. Fragile paper material is the key point. When clients open the lid of the bottle, like wine, the tag destroyed and can not use any more. Before that, customers can scan the label to get the verification information.  Protect your brand & reputation, cannot wait anymore.

People access

70% of the body is water if you want to plan to track people with a long distance like 3-5m with passive tags. I have to say, normal UHF tag can’t make it. For the special one,  you should improve your budget.

As for people access function, we suggest use LF or HF is better than UHF. LF & HF is anti-collision. Within the distance only read one tag per time, someone entered into than read the next, misreading will not happen.

3/ What distance each object or people need to be identified & tracked.

People usually used for projects are two kinds of tags, passive tag & active tag. A passive tag has LF, HF, UHF, and reading distance are different.

LF & HF can be read at 0-5 cm according to the tag size and the power of the reader. For employee’s ID cards, animals’ ear tag, LF used too much. What the function only need is to get the ID number of each object, and must close to the item to avoid misread.

HF used many in NFC application, payment, access control, e-ticket and etc. Embedded in a wristband, PVC cards, plastic material. People only need to wave their hands close to the reader, then get past. Almost in concert ticket, water park ticket, and amusement payment…

UHF tags mainly for vehicle management, asset management, and pallet manage. Reading distance from 0-10m according to the working environment and reader power.

If need track accuracy position or more than 10m, it’s better to choose an active tag or GPS technology.

4/ What is the working environment.

#High temperature resistance, #water-proof, #outside

The working environment determined the material of the tags should be used. Even for high-temperature resistance should tell us how high the temperature and last for how long time. Only in this way, right tags can be suggested. Like PPS, silicone, ceramic, or customized material.

On the other hand,  you may need water-proof. It’s should put outside to resistant for the rainy day, or need to sew it on the clothing, can be washable? What’s more, wearing on hand took into the swimming pool. All those water-proof would be much different.

What’s more, where should be put on for the RFID Tags? Some clients need a large size but others need a small size. Suitable tags will be provided according to your workable space. If there is no limited but request long reading distance, the bigger the better.

5/ Your budget for the project.

#one time use, #multi-time use, #large quantity, #small quantity

When you plan a project, you must have a target price for this project. Maybe you do not have an idea about the tag price. Or you even do not want to tell your supplier how much you want to spend on this. However, one thing you have to tell to make the project move on.

The important thing is the quantity you want to use for this project, for one-time use or multi-time use. Why you should consider this question? Without quantity, you can not get the exact price. For the other hand, if you want a large quantity with one time use, but the supplier gives you a durable tag price. There is no doubt that you will not adopt their proposal. The price must far beyond your target, and on your suppliers’ side, even without any profit, still cannot meet your target. You may lose confidence to go on your project.

In the country, your project needs durable tags with a small quantity, but the supplier quoted you a cheaper price to attract you. What’s the result? You have to spend more to replace all of those tags in the short time.

So make everything clear would be a great help to move on the projects.

6/ Prepared the whole system.

#Networking branches, #handhold or fixed

RFID Tags are much different from other items, without system and readers, RFID tags are useless. Before you seek advice for the RFID Tags, please take the system into consideration.

How to collect those data by handheld or fixed reader? Whether those data should be networking? Do you have a system and software to control the information? Only confirmed all those questions, then you can choose the tags which are workable for your system.

Besides, if you need software, it’s better customized locally. After service is important.

7/ Training of your employees.

The last thing, you should think about how to train your employees. The usage of tags, and the collection of data. To make sure your data information is security.

After above 7 steps before you communicate with the factory, I think can save much time with limited emails.

If you think this is helpful or have any questions just leave your comments! or email catherine@zbtechsz.com.

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Use Electronic shelf label under ASAC rules

Without Electronic shelf label, how about the offline retail industrial going now?

Recent years, the concept of online retail shopping has transformed in so

many ways. the convenience of online shopping has seen sales soar. There is no doubt that it poses a great threat to offline retail.

Let’s see what’s the situation of offline retail?

When the supermarkets are going to change the price label, have to call up many staffs share out the work and cooperate with one another. Working overnight at clothing time. However, mistakes can not avoid, the price on a label is in conformity with the system.

What’s worse, price labels drop down or misplaced. Let alone seckill sales promotion improve the sales.

Even customers can see and touch, but they do not know the effects in use.

Offline retail is back against the wall. What can make it survive is change, change, change. Electronic shelf label is the leverage of the market.

What is Electronic shelf label?

An electronic shelf label (ESL) system is used by retailers for displaying product pricing on shelves. Typically, electronic display modules are attached to the front edge of retail shelving. … Automated ESL systems reduce pricing management labor costs, improves pricing accuracy and allows dynamic pricing.

How does ESL work?

System module composition

System module composition

 System Management:

    System state

    System setup

    System authorization

Business management:

    Price change management

    Space management

    Inventory management

    log query

    Tracking management

Category management:

    Category definition

    Category display

    Regional product sales

    Tracking management

Query and statistics:

    Price history curve

    Commodity positioning tracking

    Sales promotion analysis

    The category into column analysis

    Sales analysis

    Inventory Analysis

    The profit statement

Value-added services:

    Mobile payment

    Shopping navigation

    Encyclopedia of commodities

    Push Ads

    Precision marketing strategy

ESL Station Instructions

1, The station is plugged in and GPS, The internet access port to the computer（The following figure）

Station IP address：192.168.1.201，

Server IP address：192.168.1.92，

Subnet mask：255.255.255.0，

Gateway：192.168.1.1

2, Modify the Server IP address（The following figure）

Server IP address：192.168.1.92，

Subnet mask：255.255.255.0，

Gateway：192.168.1.1

3, Run the DemoTool.exe（The following figure）

（1）（5）Tag preview and Editing area

（2）（11）Tag flashing colors and Wake up of time

（3）Tag size and colors

（4）Tag ID ADD，Edit，Delete，Manual Input

（6）（7）（8）Tag Size，XY Coordinates，Inverse，Colors

（9）View Tag information and The cache template

（10）Import the Text，Image，Excel template

（12）View station ID，Cache template， Send template

Connect with your system

Support:

    Text format

    Excel format

    Web API connection

    Customize

The golden time of Industrial New Retailing with the Electronic shelf label

After gone through the above information, you must be realized that at present is the golden time for new retailing with electronic shelf label. What you can get from the online retail, ESL can help achieve it and more.

Change price in second for thousands of labels

The need for speed, 46.7% of store retails currently update their prices once a week, whereas 53.4% want to be making changes daily or in real time. Of course, labels can be repriced manually and retailers have refined the process for years: workflows are proven, mobile computers and scanners optimize efficiencies, and out-of-hours work for re-labeling is built into rotas.

In fact, manual pricing still a hard task. It’s time-intensive and expensive.

One major retailer’s high-profile sale takes two days to reprice and involves entire teams in every store working overnight across an entire weekend.

Indeed, repricing ties up associates in a laborious task that most would prefer to avoid and it takes them away from their primary job of helping customers.

Store associates are always going to be limited to the number of repricing changes they can make based on the amount of free time they have available.

However, at this time many problems happen.

Price labels may drop down or put the wrong place, even some goods without price label. Customers will give up without seeing the price, some others may take much time to line up, but to be told the price is wrong at the cashier desk. Can you imagine how badly this experience? Complaint & customer loss are out of question.

Electronic shelf label helps change the price in seconds

Change prices everywhere: The centrally managed solution makes it easy to change limitless numbers of prices on shelf-edge labels – within 25m around the router, across one store or every store, in seconds – without the need to involve your in-store teams.

React to trends: Use dynamic pricing strategies to change labels based on the time of day, competitor activity, or the season. In the evening, you want to sell out all left vegetable and fruits, or would be devalued. How to make the promotion in the limited time? Discount is the best way, change the price in seconds, and inform only last for 1 hour. Promote your sales and reduce waste.

Improve service: When customers step into a supermarket, give a chance of 20% to the supermarket to get profit. The key is whether the service is good or not. If the sale always following and promoting. I think the customer will speed up their steps and go outside. On the other hand, if they want to know something, but all your sales are busy changing price label instead of answering their questions. Consumption is hard to be complicated. So electronic shelf label helps free up store associates to do what they do best – take care of customers.

Electronic shelf label shows inventory to you

If this situation happened in your life? When you step into a mall, see a beautiful shoe, try it on. However, the size is a little small. You turn to the seller, “do you have a bigger size?” the seller told you, please wait, I have to check our inventory. You waited for 10 minutes, 20 minutes… The seller comes back, sweat dripped from her face. And you were full of expectation. Then she told you, sorry, there is no bigger one in stock. What a pity! Time wasted, but can not get the expected shoes.

Regards to the seller, what did her lost? Time, potential customers during the time she is away.

You see, this is a loss for both.

How to solve this problem? Electronic shelf label shows inventory to you. All information stored in the system, and displayed on the electronic shelf label. There is no need to ask the seller how many sizes do they have. Just see the label, you can know, oh, no size for me, OK, let’s go or change the other style. So easy!

Electronic shelf label tells you how to make category management

Have you ever think about the layout of a supermarket? What’s kind of products should put near the entrance and how to bid the price? What’s kind of products should put the middle of the shelf? For children, ladies or gentlemen?

Maybe you have no idea, ask your in-store team come together and discuss it. Then put goods according to your team’s idea. Or you will say, let’s do A/B test.

Exactly, most shop owner doing like that. However, your team members’ idea only stands for a tiny fraction of a person’s thought. And what’s your target is sell those to your clients, not your team. For the second way, A/B test, we have to say it’s a smart way. But how to collect the data is a problem. For different places and prices, pick out the most suitable one, is a long time task.

Electronic shelf label give you a guide on how to make the category management.

Electronic shelf label like a data collector, at what time on which place with what’s kind of price, sold out how many pieces. According to this simple data, what you can do?

Give a discount in the rush hour or make a promotion like seckill. And tell them the next seckill time to attract more return customers.

What’s more, from those data, you will see some chewing or beautifully packaged candy put in front of the cashier desk with moderate price are more attractive.

And candy or toys put on the middle or bottom is a good place for children to take it.

You see, double your sales need your customer tell you how to make the category management. The electronic shelf label is the voice pipe.

Electronic shelf label is the social media of supermarket

Why online retail is so popular without touching and seeing, but still become hotter. It’s not difficult to find that buyers care about the reviews and comments. From those customers can know the real feeling of using the products. That is why nowadays social media become popular. Clients can know you and your company through the social media and other persons’ comments, then they decide whether to send you an inquiry or not.

However, as the offline retail, you can touch and see what you want to buy, but you don’t know the experience of using. You don’t know if happy or regret to buy the product. If you have a good experience with this product, there is no place for sharing. On the contrary, if you are so angry about the product you brought, you even do not have ways to tell others.

Electronic shelf label can combine the function online & offline.

When you step into the supermarket, you can touch and see. Take out your mobile phone scan the QR barcode on the shelf label, check the reviews and comments. You can know it’s worth to buy or not, whether the product is you want. No matter you are happy or not with this product, you can share a photo once you log in. If you do not want to wait in line, pay online also supported. Even some supermarket can send to your home within one hour.

For the supermarket, they can get the feedback from customers. Improve their service and selection. Avoid losing customers without knowing the reason.

What’s more, once customer login, they can get the big data to send push ads according to their purchasing habits. Such as on the middle of every month, you send some ads like shampoo. Or every evening, some fresh vegetables. You are the reminder of your customers’ daily life, they would be appreciated you.

How to invest Electronic shelf label in your supermarket?

Actually, you do not need to invest, your sponsor would love to support you.

You can introduce a good way to double their sales, let more person know the story of their product. Display their brand & logo wherever their products put, which can help to build a solid image and attract more fans. What they only need to do is invest in some electronic shelf label in your supermarket.

Then you collect all sponsors’ investment to install Electronic shelf label in your supermarket, a win-win situation starts.

In our more connected, customer-driven, and the fast-paced retail world, isn’t it time to price this way?

As for now, do you know what is ASAC rules? Attract sponsor attract customers!