INKODE Chipless RFID Technology:
Low-Cost, Failure-Free and Hacker-Immune

INKODE'S inexpensive, long-range passive RFID technology is called Resonate Signatures™. The INKODE technology (available from Boston Engineering through a non-exclusive license) won the Frost & Sullivan 2006 Excellence in Technology of the Year Award in the field automatic identification systems.

The chipless system sidesteps many of the short-comings of silicon-based chip RFID, withstanding the presence of static electricity and other elements. Other RFID chips have failure rates between 40-100%. With a range five times longer than other systems, CRIS also allows tracking beyond 10 meters.

Chipless RFID Features:

• Passive and disposable RF technology for identification
• Environmental acceptability
• Does not use batteries
• Resonators are smaller than 4 microns in diameter
• A very cost-effective technology
• Replaces more costly identification features
• Non-apparent barcodes
• Can read through materials such as paper, cardboard, plastics etc.
• Unique identifiers for security or tracking
• Minimizes vulnerabilities of other technologies
• Tamper evident technology
• Detectable alteration
• Deters counterfeiting and copying
• Fast data capture (approx 2 microseconds per bit) at 6 inches
• Can be detected at 10 feet

Chipless RFID Benefits:

• Compatible with IT/IS infrastructures
• Affordable, incremental implementation
• Easily insertable into most manufactured goods even paper
• Selectable resonant frequencies
• Increased security, a unique 'Signature' at each frequency
• Distant scan (2 meter) capability
• Reads through non-metallic walls, boxes, paper, etc.
• Archival quality of 100 years
• Invisible to the unaided eye
• Semi-transparent
• Flexible base material