Credentials / Barcodes / RFID Archives - Telaeris, Inc.

A Guide to Access Control Badge Types: Prox, Memory, and Microprocessor

Posted on Dec 17, 2025

This blog covers three different card types: ID Prox cards, memory storage cards, and microprocessor cards (smartcards). Click here to jump to [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
- Mobile Access Control
Understanding HID Security Card Types

Posted on Sep 26, 2025

Which Credential Do You Use? On the homepage of the Telaeris website, we make a bold claim: “We read ALL [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Tracking People & Assets… RTLS Pros, Cons, & Considerations

Posted on Nov 22, 2024

RTLS, or Real-Time Location Systems, provide live locations for people and/or equipment. As a company with DNA rooted in the [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
- Evacuations
Saving $100K in a Casi Rusco Migration

Posted on Dec 20, 2021

A customer called in after reading our Down the Rabbit Hole with Casi-Rusco blog. Their company was migrating from an [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
- Mobile Access Control
Super Securakey

Posted on Mar 1, 2021

One of the fun things about business at Telaeris is we often get the opportunity to figure out interesting and [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
- Mobile Access Control
8 Best Practices for Quick Student Check-Ins

Posted on Feb 10, 2021

Telaeris generally implements our XPressEntry handheld badge readers for companies and their employees. Recently, we deployed our system to register [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
- Mobile Access Control
Improve Your Emergency Readiness by Badging Out

Posted on Sep 8, 2020

Should You Consider Badge-Out? We’ve been living in a COVID-19 world for more than five months now. As lockdowns have [...]
6 Ways to Print Serial Numbers on RFID Cards

Posted on Nov 4, 2019

Serialization- Printing on Cards Customers often want cards purchased from us to be serialized in one way or another. Serialization [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Top 10 Uses for Handheld Badge Verification

Posted on Sep 16, 2019

David Carta, our company CEO, recently gave a presentation on the Top 10 Uses for Handheld Badge Readers. Check out [...]
RFID Blocking Wallets – Part 1
How Well Do They Work?

Posted on Aug 26, 2019

Sometimes connections can happen in unexpected ways. Through a program with the San Diego World Trade Organization, Telaeris became acquainted [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Tiny Barcodes: How Small Can a Readable Barcode Be?

Posted on Jan 10, 2019

Recently, a customer posed a question about stretching the limits of barcodes. “How small can a barcode get?” This customer [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Down the Rabbit Hole with Casi-Rusco

Posted on Sep 21, 2018

We got knee deep into a couple employee identification projects over the summer. Both systems said that they were using [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
- Mobile Access Control
Is RFID Watching You?
Concerns with RFID and Privacy

Posted on Jul 31, 2018

While describing Telaeris and our products, I often discuss how we track people during emergency evacuations. This requires us to [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Logistics Service at Camp Pendleton

Posted on Jul 2, 2018

From 2015 through 2016, Telaeris executed a service contract with Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to assist the Marines with [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
The Lazy Man’s Approach to 10x Productivity

Posted on Jul 2, 2018

From 2015 through 2016, Telaeris executed a service contract with Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to assist them with labeling 30000 Base [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Introduction to RFID

Posted on May 30, 2018

About a year ago, Telaeris hosted a hands-on RFID Lunch & Learn, co-sponsored by IEEE. We had a full house [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Don’t Cross the RFID Line

Posted on Apr 29, 2016

A customer asked if we could use a passive UHF RFID (Ultra-High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification) system to monitor if [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
RFID Makes Timekeeping Painless at Construction Sites

Posted on Mar 29, 2016

Automation – it’s what modern-day technology is all about! Recently, Telaeris was asked to simplify employee timekeeping for a construction [...]
RFID Reflections

Posted on Jan 28, 2016

RFID technology is based on clear scientific principals. Tags gather the projected energy of radio waves in an electromagnetic field. [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
D0wn and D1rty with Wiegand

Posted on Jun 5, 2015

A few months ago, we published a history of where Wiegand came from and a “light-on-technical-details” overview of how it [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
- Mobile Access Control
Wiegand For Dummies

Posted on Nov 10, 2014

Recently, our CEO, David Carta, called me into his office and asked me, “Mark, what is Wiegand?” He was instructing [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
- Mobile Access Control
Barcode Crossing

Posted on Oct 17, 2014

Barcoding on Android Most of the time when employees at Telaeris publish here, it is for real-life examples related to [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Merry Christmas RFID Style

Posted on Dec 17, 2013

The group here had a little fun this Christmas and wanted to share it with our friends. We hope you [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
RFIDs – One Handheld to Read Them All

Posted on Dec 6, 2012

The SmartAT870 is a lightweight and rugged (IP65 rated) mobile unit manufactured by SmarTerminal that Telaeris resells. It is an outstanding device, [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
- Mobile Access Control
Mr. RFID-I-Sam and Testing RFID Tag Ranges

Posted on Sep 28, 2012

It recently occurred to me that this year marks my 20th year of experience with RFID. In 1992, my dad, [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
RFID / Barcode Interoperability

Posted on Jul 25, 2012

This article is a little more technical than most of what we put out, but we thought it would be [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Barcode Types and Uses

Posted on Jul 3, 2012

When customers order tags, most of the time they don’t care what type of barcode they use – it just [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Reading Metal-Embedded RFID

Posted on Apr 26, 2012

A client recently brought an interesting challenge to the Telaeris team. They wanted to use our software to track check-outs [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
RFID – Saving the World One Tag at a Time

Posted on Jan 12, 2012

Being known as radio frequency identification (RFID) specialists, we get calls all the time about people who would like to [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Baking Barcodes

Posted on Oct 7, 2011

One of our customers recently asked us this question: “How hot can your barcode labels get?” They had a requirement [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Choosing the Right Barcode

Posted on Sep 30, 2011

The barcode has come a long way since the first one was scanned on a pack of Wrigley’s gum in [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
The Line Effect – Hidden Costs of Long Lines for Your Business

Posted on Sep 22, 2011

There are lots of hidden costs to doing business, but one you may not think about is the cost of [...]
Stuck On You – Tips for Applying Barcode Labels

Posted on Aug 31, 2011

Being in the inventory management business, we run across all sorts of people trying to label all sorts of assets. [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID
Facing Off: 5 Things to Consider When Deciding Between RFID and Barcode

Posted on Aug 10, 2011

1. Where Will You Be Tracking Items? First, get a handle on where you will be using your barcode or [...]
- Credentials / Barcodes / RFID