RFID News Roundup Spotlights William Frick's New RFID Tags

William Frick & Co. Announces Three New Rugged Tags for Oil And Gas

William Frick & Co. is offering three new ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) EPC Gen 2 passive RFID tags for heavy industries, including oil and gas, mining and manufacturing, based on the company's rugged tags, manufactured by Technologies ROI (TROI) but with new form factors that make them easier to attach. The Oil and Gas RFID Solution Group, a consortium composed of technology vendors, academia, oil and gas companies, and industry experts (see Oil & Gas RFID Group Focuses on Live Lab, Middle East), tested the tags over the course of 24 months, in real-word testing conducted by the group's oil-producer members. As a result, the group is displaying its logo on the tags, indicating it considers them to be tags of choice for that industry. One tag can be welded onto an item, while the other two are made of rubber and attach with a nylon-coated cable composed of braided steel. The tags, according to Frick, have been tested by the top-five oil-producing companies over the past two years.