Sirit Adds Solution-Oriented Features to INfinity 510 RFID Reader

Sirit Inc., a global provider of radio frequency identification (“RFID”) technology, announced the release of the 3.0 Firmware for its industry leading UHF reader, the INfinity 510 (IN510). The new firmware includes several new solution-oriented features including the Feature License Manager (FLM). The FLM helps control costs while allowing customers with advanced needs to expose specific features. The 3.0 firmware is fully compatible with all production hardware versions of the IN510.

The 3.0 firmware introduces Stray Tag Elimination technology (STE). This powerful addition allows customers to differentiate between tags that are actively transitioning the RF field and tags that are in the field but not moving. STE is particularly important around portals, such as a dock door, or for electronic article surveillance. The reader is able to distinguish between those tags moving through a portal or an exit separately from stationary tags in the vicinity of the portal.

“This feature is going to solve a lot of problems for our customers,” said Dr. Bruce Roesner, chief technology officer, Sirit. “The issue of stray tags has been a very expensive problem for many users of RFID. Sirit has taken advantage of the already industry leading performance of the IN510 coupling it with intelligent algorithms implemented directly in firmware to deliver a cost effective solution to our customers.”

The 3.0 firmware can achieve a peak throughput of 1,150 tags per second when configured for 640 kbps in the FCC region. This allows the IN510 to continue to be the leading reader of choice for high performance applications. In addition, the 3.0 firmware expands regulatory support into Japan, Barbados, Colombia, Peru and Korea.

Sirit is also excited to extend the IN510’s base functionality through support of EPC Global Gen2 v.1.2.0, 496 bit EPC ID’s and Alien Higgs-3 custom commands as well as numerous other enhancements.

“The next generation of RFID readers must do much more than simply read tags,” said Norbert Dawalibi, CEO, Sirit. “RFID readers need to solve problems. With the 3.0 firmware, Sirit makes RFID work by bringing unique solutions to our customers’ real world issues.”