Author: David Carta, Telaeris CEO

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 SmartA T870 for […]

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 also has both a human readable number as well as a barcode. And in […]

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 a 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 […]

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 fire […]

A client recently brought an interesting challenge to the Telaeris team. They wanted to use our software for tracking check-outs and locations for items which were already RFID tagged for inspection purposes. These tags were built into heavy duty rigging equipment by the Crosby Group and inspections were tracked using their patented system.  There was one big […]

Being known as radio frequency identification (RFID) specialists, we get calls all the time about people who would like to use RFID technology to solve all of the worlds problems, one tag at a time. It always delights us to hear the creative ideas customers have for the uses of RFID. At the same time, […]

Last month Telaeris attended the National Electric Contractors Association’s 2011 Conference in San Diego. Telaeris has exhibited in a number of trade shows in the past, but this was my first.  As the designated lead for the show, I was responsible for planning, preparing, and exhibiting our products on the trade show floor.  This experience […]