TiaLinx, Inc. has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I award by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The objective of this program is to address the management of passively tagged assets.

A Reader and Active Tag (RAT) is a local reader/interrogator of passive tags in a container. The RAT can retrieve inventory from passively tagged assets, store the inventory in memory for on-demand retrieval, or relay gathered inventory to a remote access interrogator. RAT will offer orders of magnitude enhancement in cost, weight, and accurate tracking of inventory.

The distributed supply chain management that will be employed using the RAT technology will enhance the information gathering capability and the processing network that identifies, authenticates and tracks both fixed and mobile assets.

Current handheld interrogators are expensive for mass deployment. Often they are designs based on open standards and can be ineffective in collecting the information when a tag is motion.

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