Author: David Carta, Telaeris CEO

A few months ago, we published a history of where Wiegand came from and a "light-on-technical-details" overview of how it works. For those of us that are more engineer-y, it left a bit to be desired. For me in particular, I recently was doing some low-level work with one of my engineers. We were monitoring [...]

Telaeris' first foray into the security field had little to do with RFID, but a lot to do with where we would head in the future. In late 2006, one of our early customers had an urgent requirement. They had more than 500 contractors arriving onsite for a maintenance event lasting 2 months. The facility lacked sufficient [...]

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 [...]

I had the opportunity to attend the Corporate Alliance Relationship Summit last Thursday. It was a great day for me personally to get out of the office and think strategically about Telaeris. The day was focused on giving and receiving feedback with other business owners about real life business challenges. In the course of the [...]

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, […]