RFID For Tracking
Anything, Anywhere,
In Real Time

RFID for tracking is used wherever you need to know what you have and where it is without someone manually checking. The most common applications are fixed asset registers, warehouse and retail inventory, tool and equipment control, returnable transit items such as pallets and cages, vehicle access at gates and weighbridges, and personnel muster reporting on hazardous sites. Any operation that currently relies on spreadsheets, clipboards or barcode scanning is a candidate for RFID tracking.

It depends entirely on the frequency band and the environment. Passive UHF (RAIN) tags — the standard choice for RFID tracking in warehousing and asset management — typically read from 3 to 12 metres. HF and NFC tags read under a metre. Active and BLE tags can be detected at 100 metres or more.

Real-world range is always shorter than the datasheet figure. Metal, liquid, dense packaging and nearby RF noise all reduce it, which is exactly why we run a site survey before specifying anything.

For most tracking applications, yes — but not for every one. RFID needs no line of sight, reads hundreds of items at once, carries a unique serial per item rather than per SKU, and survives conditions that destroy a printed label. That makes it dramatically faster for stock takes, audits and hands-free movement logging.

Barcodes still win on unit cost when you are labelling millions of low-value disposable items. In practice many of our clients run both: barcodes at the consumable level, RFID tracking for anything serialised, returnable or valuable.

Cost is driven by three things: how many items you tag, the type of tag those items need, and how many read points you require. Basic UHF labels are a few pence each in volume; rugged on-metal tags run to several pounds each. A single handheld reader can start a small asset-tracking programme, while a multi-door portal installation is a larger capital item.

We quote every project individually after the discovery call, and we will tell you honestly if RFID for tracking is not the right answer for your use case.

Yes, with the correct tag. Metal reflects RF and liquid absorbs it, so a standard paper label will fail on both. On-metal tags use a built-in spacer and ground plane that turn the metal surface into part of the antenna, and specialist tag designs handle liquid-filled containers.

This is the single most common reason DIY RFID projects fail, and the single easiest problem to avoid by testing on your actual materials first.

Yes. Our middleware converts raw reads into clean business events and delivers them over a REST API, webhooks, database writes or flat-file exchange — whichever your system supports. We have integrated RFID tracking data with SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Odoo and a long list of bespoke in-house systems.

If you have no system to integrate with, our own tracking portal works standalone.

We do — it is central to how we work. We ship RFID for tracking hardware to over 40 countries and handle the region-specific detail that catches people out: UHF frequency allocation and permitted power differ between ETSI, FCC, Japan, Korea, China and ANZ regions, so hardware bought for one market may be non-compliant or simply underperform in another.

We specify the correct regional variant, prepare export documentation and provide remote commissioning support in your time zone.

A handheld-based asset tracking programme can be live within two to four weeks of the initial call. A fixed-portal installation with ERP integration typically runs eight to sixteen weeks from survey to go-live, with a pilot phase in the middle to validate read rates before full rollout.

The variable is rarely the technology — it is how quickly tags can be physically applied to existing stock and assets.