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Testing Services Test before you invest. We provide testing services in three areas: Site Assessment, Laboratory Testing and Network Impact Assessment.

Site Assessment

Every environment is unique. The success of an RFID implementation requires clean transmission and reception between the tags and the readers. Other wireless transmissions interfering or competing in the RFID frequency range can certainly become an obstacle. Factors such as humidity, absorption and reflection will also impede successful implementation.

A site assessment puts physics ahead of guess work. Using a Spectrum Analyzer, one of our trained technicians will conduct a site audit looking for ambient electronic noise (AEN).

We'll come on to your site and review existing maps and floor plans prior to a physical facility walk-through. We'll then determine the areas requiring RF coverage, evaluate the data, cargo, property and traffic flow.

Next comes an RF survey covering the identified areas, using a Spectrum Analyser configured to sample the RF energy in a band which includes the operating frequency of the system to be installed. We allow the Spectrum Analyser to gather data overnight or for 24 hours, if possible. We then repeat the survey at your various proposed locations. Finally, we'll document our findings in a survey report, delivered to you that will provide the required information for planning and corrective action, if necessary.

Laboratory Testing

Antennas, Readers, Tags, SKU size, SKU Packaging, SKU content, Tag Placement, Tag Orientation, Read Distance, Conveyor speed. Variable factors that will impact the readability success rate of your products. Take out the guess work and have your SKU's tested in our lab. If it doesn't work in the lab, it isn't going to work in your environment.

Send in a sample of SKU's to us and we'll test the readability of your products against different manufacturer's products and vary the attenuation, speed, distance, tag placements and tag orientation. We'll send you a comprehensive report detailing the results that will enable you to make sound and well-informed decisions surrounding which hardware will best work for you.

Network Impact Assessment

RFID will generate tremendous volumes of data and network traffic. What are your storage and backup requirements? Can your existing network infrastructure handle the extra traffic? The challenge will be to establish the best way of handling all this data and traffic so that network performance is not compromised.

We will take a look at the number of various data collection points, the amount of data that will be captured and the frequency of collection. We can then take benchmarks and apply them to a baseline performance to project what the impact will be. Using this information, we will be able to provide recommendations on any network infrastructure upgrades that may be required in advance of implementation.