Coach's Corner: Tackling a 600 fpm conveyor
Tackling a 600 fpm conveyor at 10 feet per second, you better have a plan
The situation:
Armed with one RFID reader and four antennas, we had to figure out how to get a 100% read rate on tagged items as they moved along a conveyor.
At first it seemed that the typical ‘box’ design would be a great idea. The fact is, however, placing four antennas over a read area is usually the worst possible design for nearly any RFID installation.
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