Tag Selection – SkyeTek compares customer requirements against tag specifications such as protocol, size, cost, availability, read range, memory capacity, and security features, while drawing upon experience with multiple silicon and inlay manufacturers to select the most suitable tags for the targeted application.
Finished Product Selection – SkyeTek assists in the selection of off-the-shelf finished products in support of the customers’ embedded RFID program goals. In cases where a finished reader is required, SkyeTek can introduce a rich network of finished reader manufacturers.
Tag Provisioning – Once customers select tags for their application, they must then select the appropriate printers to encode and provision those tags. In addition to supporting tags from any printer, SkyeTek has partnered with printer providers to support custom printing requirements for specific, higher security applications.
Module Integration – Having provided assistance for 100+ production customers in a variety of applications, SkyeTek’s Professional Services Group has developed the breadth of experience needed to minimize RFID integration issues. Module-level integration assistance includes:
- Mechanical – provide installation and location support for readers, cabling, and antennas.
- Electrical – assist linking host system including power, communications and GPIO with RFID subsystem.
- Software - determine how best to integrate host software with the RFID subsystem
- RF – make recommendations on product design that enhance performance of RFID subsystem
Antenna Consulting - SkyeTek will select off-the-shelf antennas and tune them or, if required, design an application-specific antenna. SkyeTek’s works with a wide-range of material types (Polyimide, FR4, Ceramics, etc.), antenna approaches (fractal, dipole, microstrip, patch), and frequencies (HF, UHF, Inductive UHF) to provide manufacturers with optimal antenna solutions.