RFID Active Tags

Active Tags

• Active tags are also used ‘Beacons’ to accurately track real-time location assets in different environment.
• Active tags provide longer read range than Passive tags.
• Tags possess their own power source and transmitter enabling the tag to broadcast its signal.
• Active tags are powered by a long life battery that will last a few years, but will eventually require replacing.
• Greater memory capacities when compared to passive tags.
• The active tag can be divided into as follows:
  1. Transponder.
  2. Beacons.
• Transponder: Communicates immediately in the presence of a reader’s interrogating signal, thus conserving battery life when the tag is out of range of the reader. Active transponders are commonly used in secure access control.
• Beacons: Periodically transmitting their identifying information at user-end at defined intervals and RFID reader antennas will read and determine the tag’s location with the help of back-end software.