Per GS1's EPC Tag Data Standard (TDS),the TID memory bank (MB10) of an EPC/RFID chip shall contain an 8 bit ISO/IEC 15963 allocation class identifier of E2h at memory locations 00h to 07h

  China’s Oil producer CNOOC to improve safety and efficiency with NovaTag’s RFID Drill pipe Tracking solutions. The project will start the deployment with 40,000 units of Oil 100 RFID tags on oil drill pipe at CNOOC Tianjin oil field and will use up to 100,000 units over the next three years to improve the drill asset and lifecycle management and reduce costs and non-productive time in critical processes as well as risks related to drill pipe failures. （NovaTag’s RFID Oil Drill Pipe Tracking Solution at CNOOC Oilfield） With the advanced use of UHF RFID technology, CNOOC can ensure their operations are less likely to be disrupted by delays or unexpected failure while also improving oilfield safety and compliance. The automated tracking and real-time data also help CNOOC manage the correct pipe tally a...

RFID Tag Choice Can Make or Break Your Passive UHF Tracking Project RFID tag choice is critical to the success of your tracking project. There are many good, solid, money-saving, efficiency-making, data-rich, automagical reasons for using a passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID tracking system in your operations – none of which you will be able to realize if you choose the wrong RFID tag. “In our project requirements discussions, we spend as much time determining what tag the customer needs as we do on multiple other components combined,” explains Richard Bissonnette, president of Strategic Systems and our resident RFID tag expert. “If you select a tag randomly or because you like the way it looks, but it doesn’t have enough memory or durability – just flat-out doesn’t meet the reality of what you&rsquo...

RFID technology has been widely deployed for asset tagging in a variety of industrial and government settings. The typical application uses a serialized set of tags with encoded EPC memory and a database, which links the EPC data of the tag to an asset identifier. For example, an RFID tag encoded with a 96 bit EPC code may be associated with a specific serial number computer server, machine tool or medical device. Implicit in the tracking system design is the assumption that the tag can be reliably read and, thus, the asset correctly identified. This process, however, can be compromised with a problem known as bit-flipping. BIT-FLIPPING The vast majority of RFID tags in the marketplace utilize EEPROM memory to store the identification data. Charge stored in memory cells determine the value of each bit in the identifying EP...