Zebra Technologies’ New RFD8500 Sled Brings RFID, Barcode Scanning to Android, iOS Devices

Zebra Technologies announced its first multi-operating system RFID sled designed to easily add high-performance RFID and 1D/2D bar code scanning to Android and iOS mobile devices. The RFD8500 can also cost-effectively transform Zebra mobile devices – such as the TC55 and MC40 – into handheld RFID readers.
 
The new RFD8500 reader provides businesses with the flexibility to communicate with a variety of host devices to read and write to EPC Class 1 Gen2 UHF tags and capture 1D and 2D barcodes via Bluetooth.
 
“Zebra’s new RFD8500 sled provides investment protection to businesses that want to leverage their existing mobile device strategy and augment it with our RFID and barcode data collection capabilities,” said Bob Sanders, SVP, Data Capture Solutions and Engineering Shared Services, Zebra Technologies.