18-12-2012, 06:51 PM
RuBee
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An alternative to RFID?
What is RuBee?
The differences between RuBee and RFID.
Applications that could benefit from RuBee
What is RuBee?
RuBee™ visibility networks
A similar technology to RFID
Long Wavelength ID (LWID)
Continuous identification
Greater read ranges
The ability to read around water and metal
A longer life than active RFID
History
In June 2006, IEEE announced working on a new visibility network protocol standard IEEE P1902.1
To be in place by mid 2007
Known by industry observers as “RFID 2.0”
The difference...
RuBee uses almost exclusively magnetic energy.
RuBee operates at low frequencies.
RuBee is for visibility, RFID is for tracking
Data is stored on the RuBee tag, RFID is a pointer to the data.
RFID tags are backscattered transponders, RuBee is an active transceiver.
RuBee is fully programmable.
Capabilities / Advantages
Operates at a low frequency of 132 kHz
Higher read ranges than UHF and HF
100x100 ft (10,000 square feet)
Ability to read in harsh conditions
Water
Metal
High noise environments
Peer-to-peer communications, between routers and the tags themselves.
Ultra low power consumption : lithium battery lasts up to 10 years.
Data is stored on tag itself
RuBee Wireless Visibility Systems
RuBee Visibility Networks provide real-time location, sensor, environmental status, and movement data for most mission critical assets and mission critical personnel. RuBee is not RFID and is based on a new and improved magnetic wireless technology. RuBee is highly secure, with no eavesdropping risk, no target risk, no known EMI or EMC risk. Unlike RFID, RuBee works in harsh environments, through water and on steel. It is in use in Hospitals, Armories, Mobile Vans, Secure DoE Sites.
Smart Wireless Tools and Assets
Q4 ‘09. Smart Tools have RuBee Tag Embedded in Tool. Price Range Competitive. No Manual Steps with No Process Change, No External Power Source, 100% Accuracy. 25% coverage of Tool Kit with Smart Tools today, 50% coverage in 12 months, 80% in 24 months. Remaining tools are managed with Smart Pads for 100% Tool Visibility & Accountability.
RuBee Torque Wrench can record torque logs who and when wrench was used, and that wrench has not been dropped and is in calibration.
Can be used with Smart Bolts that retain Torque Log.
Smart Carts
Smart Carts provide instant World Wide tool mobility and mobile tool control though Oracle Dot-Tag and ECSS. The Smart Carts may be loaded on a C17 moved to a forward operating base anywhere in the world and function as if it was at its home base, with full GPS localization and automatic tool and asset inventory.
[attachment=44337]
An alternative to RFID?
What is RuBee?
The differences between RuBee and RFID.
Applications that could benefit from RuBee
What is RuBee?
RuBee™ visibility networks
A similar technology to RFID
Long Wavelength ID (LWID)
Continuous identification
Greater read ranges
The ability to read around water and metal
A longer life than active RFID
History
In June 2006, IEEE announced working on a new visibility network protocol standard IEEE P1902.1
To be in place by mid 2007
Known by industry observers as “RFID 2.0”
The difference...
RuBee uses almost exclusively magnetic energy.
RuBee operates at low frequencies.
RuBee is for visibility, RFID is for tracking
Data is stored on the RuBee tag, RFID is a pointer to the data.
RFID tags are backscattered transponders, RuBee is an active transceiver.
RuBee is fully programmable.
Capabilities / Advantages
Operates at a low frequency of 132 kHz
Higher read ranges than UHF and HF
100x100 ft (10,000 square feet)
Ability to read in harsh conditions
Water
Metal
High noise environments
Peer-to-peer communications, between routers and the tags themselves.
Ultra low power consumption : lithium battery lasts up to 10 years.
Data is stored on tag itself
RuBee Wireless Visibility Systems
RuBee Visibility Networks provide real-time location, sensor, environmental status, and movement data for most mission critical assets and mission critical personnel. RuBee is not RFID and is based on a new and improved magnetic wireless technology. RuBee is highly secure, with no eavesdropping risk, no target risk, no known EMI or EMC risk. Unlike RFID, RuBee works in harsh environments, through water and on steel. It is in use in Hospitals, Armories, Mobile Vans, Secure DoE Sites.
Smart Wireless Tools and Assets
Q4 ‘09. Smart Tools have RuBee Tag Embedded in Tool. Price Range Competitive. No Manual Steps with No Process Change, No External Power Source, 100% Accuracy. 25% coverage of Tool Kit with Smart Tools today, 50% coverage in 12 months, 80% in 24 months. Remaining tools are managed with Smart Pads for 100% Tool Visibility & Accountability.
RuBee Torque Wrench can record torque logs who and when wrench was used, and that wrench has not been dropped and is in calibration.
Can be used with Smart Bolts that retain Torque Log.
Smart Carts
Smart Carts provide instant World Wide tool mobility and mobile tool control though Oracle Dot-Tag and ECSS. The Smart Carts may be loaded on a C17 moved to a forward operating base anywhere in the world and function as if it was at its home base, with full GPS localization and automatic tool and asset inventory.