Since 2004 there has been just one company performing objective head-to-head scientific comparison on RFID equipment – the ODIN Lab. Considered by many to be the “Consumer Reports of RFID” ODIN has produced more than a dozen public Benchmarks and scores of private Benchmarks. End-users trust the objective, independent third party evaluation and equipment manufacturers rely on ODIN's Benchmarks to see how they stack up against the competition. If you are interested in a private Benchmark contact ODIN’s lab to discuss testing protocols, timing and costs.

RFID Benchmarks - European Readers

European RFID Reader Benchmark

The European RFID Reader Benchmark presents analysis of the seven leading ETSI compliant reader manufacturers. The benchmark was developed to provide end users with objective insight into how well readers actually work in the field and what criteria should be evaluated when making reader selection decisions. End users can leverage the European RFID Reader Benchmark to save time assembling their vendor short lists, more critically assess vendor capabilities and reduce reader selection risk.

The Benchmark is the first scientific and objective comparison of how well RFID readers designed for the European market work in common use cases such as near dock doors, conveyors and stretch wrappers. In addition to scientific performance analysis, the report includes evaluation commentary by the ODIN engineering team. The results of the tests and the commentary are all laid out clearly for end users to make informed decisions

The benchmark used six scientific tests and three common use case tests to characterize and compare RFID reader performance. The six scientific tests included:

Power output.
Occupied channel power.
Receive sensitivity.
Interference rejection.
Tag acquisition speed.
Read distance.

The three common RFID use cases tested included:

Conveyor.
Stretch wrapper.
Adjacent Dock Door portals with Listen Before Talk (LBT) protocol.
Adjacent Dock Door portals with proposed ETSI EN 302-208.

European RFID Reader Benchmark - Single User License $250.00

(Limited to use only on one PC/laptop, cannot be shared)

European RFID Reader Benchmark - Enterprise User License $495.00

(The enterprise edition is for unlimited use within a commercial or government organization)