BIGSquid RFID: Leading RFID Solution in India

RFID (pronounced as separate letters) short for radio frequency
identification. It is a technology, which uniquely identifies
objects automatically using wireless radio communications.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technique of
distantly piling and recovering data by means of devices known
as RFID tags. An RFID tag is a little object, like a sticky
label, that can be integrated into a product. RFID tags hold
antennas to facilitate them to accept and react to
radio-frequency inquiries from an RFID transceiver.

What is RFID tags? What are the different RFID
tags?

RFID tags are of two types: active RFID and passive RFID.
Passive RFID tags do not have their own power supply. The
little electrical current stimulated in the antenna by the
inward radio frequency scan gives adequate power for the tag to
send a rejoinder. Because of power and cost factors, the
rejoinder of a passive RFID tag is essentially concise. It is
normally just an ID number (GUID). Shortage of its own power
supply crafts the device very small. Commercially accessible
products exist that can be implanted beneath the skin. The least
such devices commercially accessible measured 0.4 mm — 0.4
mm, and thinner than a sheet of paper. Such devices are
virtually undetectable. Passive tags have practical read ranges
that differ from about 10 mm up to about 5 meters. Passive tags
are cheap to manufacture.

Active RFID tags, ought to have a power source, and may have
longer ranges and larger memories than passive tags, as well as
the capability to accumulate additional information sent by the
transceiver. The smallest active tags are about the size of a
coin. Many active tags have convenient ranges of tens of meters,
and a battery life up to several years. While the cost factors
of passive tags over active tags are noteworthy, other factors
including accuracy and dependability make the use of active tags
very common today.

A number of nations have anticipated embedding RFID devices in
new passports to ease proficient machine reading of biometric
data. The RFID-enabled passport distinctively identifies its
holder; in the proposal currently under thought, the RFID tag
will also comprise a range of other personal information.

BIGSquid RFID

BIG Squid RFID is not merely integrating various RFID
middleware (tags and readers) with our own products, but we have
formed partnerships with other leading companies that enable us
to provide supply chain solutions for various clients. BIGSquid
RFID provides solutions to various industries like
pharmaceutical, manufacturing, textile etc., across the globe.

BIGSquid RFID is similar to bar code technology by
automatically collecting information about a product or
transaction quickly, easily and without human error. Lets
understand some common differences between RFID and Bar Code.

BIGSquid RFID and Bar code are both identification technologies
that hold data that is accessed by some type of reader. In
actuality, they complement each other very well and can be used
effectively side by side in many applications. Bar code is an
optical technology and RFID is a radio technology. However,
unlike barcode technology, it provides a contact less data link,
without need for line of sight—for example articles inside
a cardboard boxes or concerns about harsh or dirty
environments that restrict the use of bar codes. Just like bar
code, RFID tags are available with different memory sizes and
encoding options. The ways these technologies exchange data
account for most of the differences between RFID and bar code
and help determine where each identification technology is best
put to use.

BIG Squid RFID uses an integrated microchip and antenna that
reads information. The combination of the chip and antenna is
called an RFID tag. There are two types of tags, and therefore
two types of systems, active and passive. In passive systems,
which are the most common, an RFID reader transmits an energy
field that "wakes up" the tag and provides the power
for the tag to operate. In active systems, a battery in the tag
is used to boost the effective operating range of the tag and to
offer additional features over passive tags, such as temperature
sensing. The radio waves that are sent back and forth between
tag and transmitter contain the data in the tag, and this data
is then converted by the reader and transferred into a computer
system.

Companies are focusing on passive UHF tags, which costs less
than 50 cents today in volumes of 1 million tags or more. Their
read range isn't as far -- typically less than 20 feet vs. 100
feet or more for active tags -- but they are far less expensive
than active tags and can be disposed of with the product
packaging.

The Key Components to an RFID System are a number of components
including tags of different sizes catering the different
industrial needs, RFID readers and system software.

An RFID reader, usually connected to a Personal Computer,
serves the same purpose as a barcode scanner. It can also be
battery-powered to allow mobile transactions with RFID tags. The
RFID reader handles the communication between the Information
System and the RFID tag.

The BIGSquid RFID Software collects, permutes and stores the
data collected from the tag in a back end like MySQL, SQL Server
etc. This is usually similar to any other data collection
software.

Company Profile

In Brief BIGSquid RFID is a technology company exclusively into
Radio Frequency Identification Solutions. Our aim is to bring
out high end RFID products that will help the business needs of
various segments.

Our Team consists of experienced people from the industry with
several years of R & D expertise in the field.

Team lead Satheesh G Nair has over 14 years of engineering
management experience in networking systems, computer systems
and applications. He has been working on middleware technologies
right from 1994. This exposure and understanding is the basis on
which BIGSquid is built.

Satheesh is also the Co - founder of TrueBlue Technologies,
where he built a enterprise mobile application technology
company from scratch and managed the entire development process
from product conceptualization to first customer ship. Products
developed here are in commercial service in service provider
networks around the globe. His background in building
intelligent networking was particularly relevant to TrueBlue's
future proof architectural model for next-generation mobile
service and application delivery services model.

Prior to founding TrueBlue, Satheesh led a number of engineering
development teams. These included the systems team for GISTROLON
AG (a 51:49 Joint venture between ROMAG AG and SWISSTELECOM) in
Switzerland and the innovative intelligent network management
system for ECHELON'S LON based networks at Swiss telecom named
Lontree. Satheesh holds Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
and Technology from University of Bangalore.