HF Multiport Companion

HF Tag programming Station

Tagging and encoding tags in a library could be very time consuming and prone to many errors that can be easily eliminated by using the Multiport Companion. The ideal programming station for a library is a device that works independently without the support of a computer. Stand alone programming stations reduce the overall cost of tagging by increasing the speed of programming pre-attached tags and giving the librarians the flexibility and portability they need.

Authentication

Multiport Companion duality of barcode and RFID made this device a prime candidate for drug pedigree application today. Multiport Companion enables drug pedigree solution providers to work with RFID without worrying about different RFID protocols, tag encodings and frequency standards.

Drug pedigree solution providers just simply plug the Muliport Companion in, scan the package and use the data to check the authentication.

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Check in station

RFID tags are dynamic media for storing data and could be used to eliminate the need for legacy EAS tags. Therefore when a book returns to the library you have to activate the EAS bit of the RFID tag and also update the library system information.

Another important point in implementing an RFID enabled library is that always there are considerable number of books that are on the loan thus using both RFID and barcode is necessary.

Multiport Companion gives you both duality of barcode and RFID as well as EAS bit deactivation in one package. The nice thing about using Multiport Companion is that you do not need to change any of your software. Simply use the barcode reader attached to Multiport Companion to read the books with barcodes or use the built in antenna to scan the books with RFID tags and Multiport Companion automatically activate the security bit of the RFID tag.

Check out Station

At checkout station you need to deactive the EAS bit and update the library information system and Multiport Companion gives you both duality of barcode and RFID as well as EAS bit deactivation in one package.