Zebra Technologies

About Zebra Technologies

Zebra Technologies offers end-to-end passive RFID solutions, including pre-tested RFID labels and tags with certified inlays for optimized read ranges. Their products are tailored for applications like inventory tracking and asset management, ensuring reliability across various surfaces. The Zebra logo prominently displays a stylized zebra head in black and white stripes, representing agility and adaptability.

RFID Products

Zebra Technologies provides a comprehensive suite of RFID hardware, software, and supplies designed to enhance visibility across operations. Their RFID solutions are engineered to work seamlessly together, creating an ecosystem of products that enable businesses to track and manage assets with precision and efficiency.

Key product offerings include:

RFID Readers - Fixed, handheld, and hands-free options for various deployment scenarios
RFID Printers - Industrial, desktop, and mobile printers for on-demand tag creation
RFID Labels and Tags - Pre-tested inlays optimized for different materials and environments
RFID Software - Solutions for encoding, reading, and managing RFID data
RFID Antennas - Various form factors for different read zone requirements

Zebra's RFID technology excels in retail inventory management, healthcare asset tracking, and manufacturing operations. Their solutions are designed to maximize read accuracy even in challenging environments with metal surfaces or dense product arrangements.

Our Partnership

American RFID Solutions partners with Zebra Technologies to provide integrated RFID solutions that maximize efficiency and accuracy for our clients. We leverage Zebra's robust hardware and software capabilities in our TrackStar ecosystem to deliver reliable tracking and data management solutions.

Our partnership with Zebra enables us to offer clients complete end-to-end RFID solutions that combine Zebra's high-performance readers, printers, and tags with our TrackStar software platform. This integration provides our clients with exceptional visibility into their operations, seamless inventory management, and improved operational efficiency.

America's Leading RFID Integrator Since 2002

Our Legacy

American RFID Solutions has been working on tracking and inventory systems for 23 years, starting with TrackStar in 2002. We're the longest-operating RFID integrator still using the same core engineering and leadership team, which has kept us consistent.

Manufacturing Excellence

We've developed reliable solutions for factories, covering job shops, continuous process, JIT, and KanBan setups. Lear Corporation used our system to manage their European JIT process, ensuring shipments went out on time with no issues. ArcelorMittal had us build a system to coordinate their steel mill's production lines under harsh conditions. A Fortune 500 manufacturer applied TrackStar to handle build-to-order and JIT operations across multiple campuses, reducing inefficiencies with real-time data updates.

Defense & Aerospace Innovation

We've supported aviation, aerospace, and defense projects with practical results. L-3 Communication Systems-West used our system to improve workflow efficiency for DoD communication equipment. Another DoD contractor used TrackStar for tracking 27,000 government assets across a million-square-foot facility, maintaining full accountability and meeting strict maintenance and geodetic requirements. In 2021, another defense client gave us a 5-million-square-foot facility to manage, where we tracked 500,000 assets annually using energy-harvesting RFID, keeping operations lean and consistent with constant monitoring.

Enterprise-Scale Data Management

We've handled large data volumes—hundreds of billions of measurements—over the years for clients with enormous facilities, some with roofs up to 40 acres. These operations depend on accurate data for decisions. One of the top three U.S. energy companies in 2022 uses our system to monitor grid assets live.

TrackStar Dashboard: Processes billions of location updates yearly for stakeholder reports.

Transit Authority: Our 2021 system for the second-largest U.S. transit authority manages billions of requests annually.

Healthcare: We're in over 850 hospitals, tracking 1.5 million pieces of medical equipment.

Scale Mastery: We've built systems for hospital workflows and large steel mills, handling any size or complexity where our performance is mission critical and lives depend on TrackStar reliability.

Industry Recognition

We were finalists for Best in Show at RFID Journal Live three years in a row, 2008 to 2010—a consistent run.
A 34-hospital group measured all their vendor projects for performance sustainability over a 3 year window. TrackStar won - our method of using automation to stop creep and walk-back to "bad-habits" earned us first place for improving hand hygiene compliance and reducing infections over the long haul.
We did a RFID webinar with Motorola that had the highest attendance and longest viewer retention they'd seen.
ARS has deployed some of the largest passive RF topologies, with thousands of contiguous antennas in one system.
We've also written four textbooks on RFID, covering the technical details.

Our healthcare systems address real problems. Hand hygiene monitoring with RFID has cut hospital-acquired infections by up to 45% at client sites. Tracking patients and equipment ensures critical tools are available when needed, and monitoring medications and specimens reduces errors. This lets staff focus on patients, cuts delays, and improves outcomes. Healthcare clients rely on our systems for these results.

From the top 10 global steel mills to Johns Hopkins, Amazon (our hosting partner), and others, we've reduced "whole house" inventory from days to minutes. We have 23 years of experience solving tough problems and offer the best applications-engineering in the business. We have a broad and deep intellectual property stack to get you operational with results. Give us the chance to earn the right to be your partner.

Harold Clampitt, CEO/Founder and Jim Policheri, President