You go to the object. Not the other way around.
A handheld is the most versatile piece of hardware in this field: walking rounds, targeted search, recording what goes out, checking a pallet. It reads hundreds of tags per pass and gets warmer as you close in on the object you are after.
Our handhelds read RFID and barcode, so you do not have to retire anything.
What to look at when you choose
Brand and model say less than where the thing gets used. These four questions decide the choice.
- Where it gets used
- Indoors, outdoors, in the cold or in the rain. That decides the housing and the IP rating
- How long at a stretch
- A ten minute round asks something different than an eight hour shift
- Read range
- From half a meter at a counter to several meters along the racking
- What else it has to do
- Reading only, or barcode, photos and filling in forms as well
What a handheld does and what it does not do
Wel
- Read hundreds of tags per pass, through cardboard and film as well
- Targeted search: warmer and colder until you have the object
- RFID and barcode on the same device
- Come along to the place where the work is
Niet
- Register on its own: someone has to pick it up and use it
- Replace a fixed reading point if you want every passage recorded
- Read reliably on bare metal without a label made for it
- Give an exact position, only direction and proximity
The limit sits in the action. A handheld registers what someone decides to register; when it gets busy, that gets skipped. If you want to be sure every passage is recorded, you need a fixed reading point and not a better handheld.