Höft & Wessel presents global novelty in RFID technology

With its mobile data recording device skeye.integral UHF, Höft & Wessel provides an RFID reader that gives wholesalers, retailers and their suppliers speedy and convenient first-time access to RFID technology.

Everyone is talking about it, and major wholesale and retail chains such as the REWE Group are already using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), a technology that rationalises and accelerates processes in the entire field of supply chain management. This radio frequency technology facilitates touchless identification, control and tracking of any number of merchandise articles and objects across the entire value added chain - from production and transport logistics right through to after-sales service. Pioneers like REWE have realised this and are in the process of modifying their merchandise flows accordingly in cooperation with their suppliers. In order to record and process the relevant data, either fixed, installed reader stations or mobile readers are required, among other things.

Höft & Wessel has now equipped its mobile data capturing device with RFID technology especially for wholesale and retail applications. An integrated UHF reader makes it possible to read and write to RFID storage devices across a distance of 2 metres, making the system location-independent and meeting the high flexibility required for all applications in the process chain. With the integrated bar code scanner and the WLAN radio module, the hybrid device can be deployed as an online terminal both for RFID and for conventional applications. It has already received European approval in accordance with ETSI EN 302 208 and EN 300 220.

About Höft & Wessel AG

Höft & Wessel develops, manufactures and distributes hard- and software. For the three business segments - trade & logistics with mobile data acquisition, telematics and internet, ticketing & transport and parking - the company provides complete system solutions. Since its foundation Höft & Wessel has realised many projects specifically tailored to the customers needs.

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Via its Metric subsidiary, located in Cirencester near London, Höft & Wessel provides proven solutions for on-/off-street parking control. This includes pay and display terminals as well as complex parking management systems for use in parking garages and on parking sites. The systems base on access barriers combined with payment terminals featuring the know how of metrics engineers as well as the experiences of co-operative partners. Until now, Metric Parking has been installed more than 70,000 parking systems in 46 countries and has become the market leader in Great Britain.