Confidex SteelWING - RFID label for metal surfaces
With up to 10 meter (32ft) read range on metal surfaces, UHF Class 1 Generation 2 compliant Confidex SteelWING was designed to overcome the challenges of metal asset tagging. The key design targets of high performance, compact structure and cost-efficiency are achieved with SteelWING’s innovative patent pending design. The light-weight tag has adhesive background and it can be attached directly on a metal surface – without any extra spacer material.
Formerly, RFID labels could not be applied directly to metal. Many label solutions have been developed with the idea in mind that the RFID label has been lifted away from the proximity of metal surfaces. Typically such products work the better the more space is left between tag and metal. But the drawback of such labels is that when antenna bends closer to metal and hence the distance to metal reduces the RFID label performance decreases significantly. Instead of avoiding metal contact, contact between the metal and the antenna of Confidex SteelWING actually improves the operational performance. Unlike its competitive products, Confidex SteelWING is truly a “metal-friendly” RFID label.
SteelWING can also be attached to other materials and it can be operated still with slightly reduced performance compared to metal surfaces. Wide-band Confidex SteelWING is equipped with NXP G2XM IC which has extended user memory and Confidex can deliver the SteelWING with pre-encoding or customer specific data label showing visually the encoded data in barcode or human readable form.
Product is RoHS complaint. Product is patent pending.
DownloadTechnical Product Specification in PDF format
| Dimensions | 76,2 x 18(area) x 21(height) mm |
| Frequency | 865 - 928 MHz |
| Read range | 8 - 10 m/ 26 - 32 ft |
| IC and memory size | NXP G2XM |
| Ambient temperature | -35 °C to +85 °C |
| Attachment methods | Background adhesive |
| Special features | On-metal label with superior performance. |
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