Author: David Carta, Telaeris CEO

Not long ago, I had the opportunity to be coached by my friend and Agile development expert, Garrett Borunda. Over the course of a month, he evaluated my management style as CEO of Telaeris. One of his first observations was how much I loved to teach. He asked why I hadn’t leveraged my PhD to […]

The group here had a little fun this Christmas and wanted to share it with our friends. We hope you are able to enjoy time with your family during this holiday season. The video is especially relevant as we recently deployed our XPressEntry solution using 900 MHz UHF cards to manage access for ski resort […]

The SmartAT870 is a lightweight and rugged (IP65 rated) mobile unit manufactured by SmarTerminal that Telaeris resells. It is an outstanding device, capable of reading most RFID tags, barcodes, and smart cards available. We get lots of questions regarding what this device can do, so this article discusses most of the capabilities of the SmartAT870 for Badge Identification […]

It recently occurred to me that this year marks my 20th year of experience with RFID. In 1992, my dad, David Carta Sr., had a customer in Chile who wanted to be able to identify cattle electronically using something called “RFID”. The end user wanted a working sample program and hardware to show how RFID […]

This article is a little more technical than most of what we put out, but we thought it would be useful to share with others. When customers order EPC-GEN2 Type UHF RFID tags from us, they often want a product that has both a human readable number as well as a barcode. And in their […]

What is the Cost of Safety? People don’t like to talk about it, but there are costs to safety. The standard reply to satisfy legal is: “We comply with all regulations to keep our people safe” There are always tradeoffs when it comes to safety. If you look at most evacuation drills that take place, […]

Why do we practice Fire Drills? The answer is the same as it would be for anything else. We practice to improve. I remember talking with an old teammate of mine, Bryan, about an amazing between-the-legs shot Andre Agassi made in a tennis match. Top players do the basics over and over until the muscle […]

When customers order tags, most of the time they don’t care what type of barcode they use – it just has to work. In most cases, your barcode scanner will likely support any 1D barcode. So why should you choose one barcode symbology over another? We choose to use Code 39 (sometimes called Code 3 […]

As children, most of us went through the experience of fire drills at school. They were often a special treat because it meant we got to be somewhere other than our classroom. If we were lucky, it gave us more time to cram for a test. Because real emergencies are so rare, few people take […]