The How and Why of RAIN RFID Cryptographic Authentication
The problem of counterfeit products is global, and it’s growing. Knockoff handbags, athletic shoes, wristwatches, and pharmaceuticals cost businesses and consumers billions of dollars every year globally.
Now, there’s a new way brands can fight fakes: RAIN RFID cryptographic authentication.
The Impinj Authenticity™ solution engine brings enterprise-scale product authentication to new and existing RAIN RFID deployments.
What is Product Authentication?
At its heart, authenticating something is largely straightforward: You want to conclusively establish the item as genuine and determine its owner or origin. Doing that can get complex.
Product authentication solutions built on the Impinj platform employ secure cryptography, using a challenge-response protocol to determine with a high degree of certainty whether an item is genuine.
RAIN RFID from Impinj
An item tagged with RAIN RFID has certain information associated with it—data such as the manufacturer name, model number, serial number, date of manufacture, purchase date, customer name, and more. That item-specific data can be stored in a product cloud.
When that item is read at any point in the supply chain by a RAIN RFID reader, an Impinj-based authentication solution cross-checks and confirms the information stored in the product cloud and verifies the tag’s authenticity using the Impinj Authentication Service.
Impinj Authenticity uses cryptographic authentication, a feature of the new RFID tag chips, to swiftly and automatically verify tagged products as genuine.
Implement RAIN RFID with a Trusted Partner
For an in-depth explanation of how Impinj Authenticity works, contact Barcodes, Inc. to learn more about RAIN RFID.
How to Select, Print, and Encode RFID Tags (Webinar)
About This Webinar:
How to Select, Print, and Encode RFID Tags
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET
Presented By:
Chris Brown – RFID Subject Matter Expert at TSC Printronix Auto ID
Carlo Emanuele – Vice President and General Manager, Consumables at Barcodes Group
About the RFID Tag Webinar
IDTechEx forecast that 41.2 billion RAIN RFID tags will be sold in 2024, up from 15 billion just three years ago.
To enable you to track your assets with unprecedented accuracy, using the right tag will determine the success of an RFID implementation from the very beginning.
But how do you determine the encoding scheme to use at your organization, and the most appropriate tag or label to support this?
During this webinar, the following questions are answered:
- Why do you need to be concerned about encoding “good data” to RFID tags?
- How do you select an RFID tag that finds the optimal balance between size and read range?
- What role can a partner play in assisting with pre-printed/pre-encoded labels or providing solutions for your on-demand printing?
Watch the RFID Label Webinar
For an assessment of how RFID can improve your inventory accuracy and shipment verification process, please reach out to us at [email protected] or visit www.barcodesinc.com/solutions/learn-more-about-rfid/.
ICYMI: Responsive Supply Chain with RAIN RFID Webinar
In case you missed out webinar today, click on the video and watch Barcodes, Impinj and Tagit discuss how RAIN RFID technology is changing the landscape of the connected supply chain.
Key takeaways include:
- How to help responsive supply chain systems track assets and materials that are continuously on the move.
- Drive efficiency through automation of materials auditing, shipment verification, field asset inventory and more.
- Develop holistic solutions – from endpoints, to connectivity, to software – to bring relevant data to the systems that drive your business.
If you have any questions, please contact our Marketing Coordinator, Maraya Sandoval, at [email protected] or at 312-765-8860.
Increase Speed and Accuracy with Impinj RAIN RFID
Impinj’s RAIN RFID collects accurate, real time data, so businesses can gain critical insight to make intelligent decisions whenever and anytime they need.
Manual data can cause inventory errors, mis-shipments, and low visibility in your supply chain. Deploy Impinj’s RAIN RFID the future of supply chains begins at the dock door, configurations to suit any operation environment. Up to 100% pallet level accuracy, and automated proof of shipment compliance and up to 30% increased in dock door output.
Increase efficiency in your supply chain with RFID and drive immediate result to your operations. Ideal for applications in retail, healthcare, supply chain, logistics, industrial manufacturing, hospitality, and air transportation, and more.
Benefits:
- Can achieve up to 99% accurate inventory data
- Always know where items are located at
- Reducing out of stock and unnecessary markdowns
- Make critial business decisions with confidence
Contact Barcodes if you need an RFID solutions, we can help with product solution that fits your budget and installation.
Impinj’s Octane 5.4 Update for Fixed RFID Readers
Impinj has announced the availability of the new Octane 5.4, firmware that enables Speedway, xArray, and xPortal readers to access LLRP data from RAIN RFID tags. Octane 5.4 firmware is now available for Impinj authorized partners and our customers that have Enhanced Maintenance. All other users should contact the company their reader was purchased from to request firmware updates. In this update, several new features were added to the firmware based on customer feedback. Also based on feedback, Impinj graduated the Octane Java SDK from beta status.
Updates in Octane 5.4 include:
- Expanded RAIN RFID tag tracking functionality with Impinj xArray tag direction mode.
- Get entry, update, and exit reports for tags as they move through designated sectors via Octane Java SDK 1.2
- Enhanced security profiles to protect your reader.
- Require readers to authenticate to gain network access using standards based 802.1x.
- Leverage SFTP to protect upgrades by authenticating to a remote server and ensuring secure transport of files.
- Encrypt Customer Application Partition (CAP) files to secure embedded applications.
For assistance updating to Octane 5.4 or finding the right Impinj RFID reader, contact one of our RFID specialists at Barcodes, Inc.
