Impinj Launches Speedway Revolution Reader to Make RFID Performance Easy

Impinj, Inc. announced the availability of the Speedway Revolution reader, which incorporates the company’s innovative Autopilot technology to deliver new standards in RFID reader performance, ease of use, versatility, reliability and cost of ownership.

Critical to Speedway Revolution’s outstanding performance and ease of use, Impinj’s patented Autopilot technology continuously and automatically optimizes the reader for its operating environment to deliver peak performance at all times.

Because RFID system performance depends upon a multitude of ever-changing environmental conditions (including RF interference levels, tag density in the reader field and ambient RF noise) users configure readers for worst-case scenarios, compromising optimum performance in the process. Autopilot guarantees peak performance while eliminating the need for manual tuning by integrating several innovative features, including:

•Autoset, which continuously optimizes the reader’s configuration for the best, most reliable performance. Speedway Revolution readers sense levels of RF noise and interference, automatically selecting the appropriate settings.

• Low duty cycle, which reduces RF interference, power consumption, and energy costs. Speedway Revolution readers only transmit when tags are in the field of view, eliminating unnecessary RF noise.

• Dynamic antenna switching, which improves throughput and efficiency. Speedway Revolution readers sense where tags are in the field and automatically focus more time on antennas with the largest tag populations in view. For example, if a low-height pallet follows taller pallets through a portal, a Speedway Revolution reader will reduce wasteful time spent on antennas in the upper positions.

“End-users need RFID systems to deliver great performance in dynamic environments, and they want readers to be easy to deploy and inexpensive to own,” said Kerry Krause, vice president of marketing at Impinj. “Speedway Revolution represents a quantum leap in reader design, inspired by our experience as the worldwide leader in UHF RFID tag chips, reader chips and fixed readers. The combination of Autopilot along with Revolution’s small size and extremely low power consumption delivers consistently superior performance, unparalleled ease-of-use and significant cost savings for end-users.”