The RF Shark helps end users deploy RFID read zones and assists with fault isolation, troubleshooting, installation and augmentation of the air interface.

~Visualize & Analyze your read zone~

· Real-time Shark-O-Meter

· 3D RF Coverage Profile

· Geodetic Lane Map

· Histogram

· Linked Displays

Two Tools In One!

 [1] Portable Handheld Meter:

This tool uses invisible radio waves to paint a picture of read zone activity using easy-to-read charts and graphs.  In this mode of operation, the RF Shark provides the operator with real time read rate percentages driven from the antenna’s field of view.  This effectively calibrates the “RF sweet spot” aka read zone.  Users benefit by empirically measuring their read zone’s performance to singulate tags and the distribution of RF energy as propagated by the antennas.  This feature is needed to determine if a read zone failure is due to the RF coverage or tag placement on the SKU. 

[2]Multi-tag SKU Analyzer:

In this mode of operation the RF Shark provides a rapid means to simultaneously measure the readability of up to 10 tags in a calibrated “RF sweet spot”  This feature uses the coverage profile generated  from the Portable Handheld Meter mode to isolate the differential performance due to tag placement on the SKU.

SAVE TIME & MONEY via our rapid data collection process!

It took over 18 hours and 750,000 measurements, an extraordinarily labor intensive process, to create our first 3D read zone coverage map .

The new RF Shark can perform the same task in less than 20 minutes!

Let the Shark quickly and accurately measure the performance of your read zones.

Histogram

This output provides a statistical breakdown of poor, marginal and acceptable read rates.  Users may monitor this data over time to baseline the read zone’s performance and ensure that changes to SKUs, antennas, tags, readers or firmware do not alter acceptable performance gradients.

Geodetic Lane Graph

This output provides a detailed spatial representation of the quality of your reads. These are visually portrayed using the color red for poor reads, yellow for average, and green for excellent reads.

Shark-O-Meter

This screen is a powerful real time display of the actual read rate at any sampling point.  Users may apply this capability to:

1. Fault isolate within the field of view of the antennas.

2. Mechanically beam tilt each antenna to precisely direct the RF energy to create either maximum coverage or focused power for x-ray reads.

3. Create an RF space envelope which effectively controls the dwell time within the read zone to Singulate tags.

Examination of the RF data using the histogram and geodetic plots of the measurement planes will give the RF Shark operator an idea of how the read zone will perform based on the tagged asset’s dwell time, spatial requirements, and tag placement for any given use case.  Perform fine tuning of the hardware to match End User RFID infrastructure requirements.