Enjoyrfid Technical

SAW RFID tag:SAW – Surface Acoustic Wave tags form a half way house between the very basic 1-bit RFID tags and the more advanced tags that are available. The SAW RFID tags operate in the microwave region using backscatter techniques, and although they do not have a processor, they can be encoded at point of manufacture with a number. This number is limited by the technology but may be up to 32 or 64 bits.

Smart card tags:Smart card tags are different to smart labels. Advanced smart card tags are used for many applications, and in particular where secure communications is required, for example for transactions involving finance. These cards may have complicated processors on board along with sufficient memory. When using these cards there is a balance to be made between functionality and cost – this needs to be taken at the outset of the design and needs to be carefully balanced.

Although RFID tags may appear to be the more straightforward or simple element within an RFID system, this may not be the case as considerable ingenuity and careful design is required to ensure the RFID tags perform correctly while being capable of being manufactured to a very low cost and within constraints of size, weight, form factor and also reliability. While most RFID tags are very cheap to manufacture, this hides the design behind them.