Mojix introduces Star system to European market

Mojix has launched the European version of its Star system, a UHF passive RFID system that offers precision and scalability to radio frequency identification applications.

The Star system combines the latest advances in digital signal processing with an architecture to expand RFID coverage by an order of magnitude.

The system offers: 100,000 times the indoor receiver sensitivity of previous UHF passive RFID systems; a 200m read range; a 25,000m2 coverage area; non line-of-sight read capabilities; and accurate real-time location determination to within 1m.

A single Mojix Star system handles multiple concurrent applications across an entire warehouse, retail complex, distribution centre, transportation yard or other large contiguous space with a single point of data collection and management.

These applications are not limited to traditional RFID tag reads, but can also include numerous other high-value functions in a passive ETSI-compliant RFID environment.

Conventional passive RFID systems rely on RFID readers that fulfill the dual function of both energising tags and receiving/reading the resulting signals.

In contrast, the Mojix Star system separates the transmit and receive functions to lower the cost, increase the flexibility and extend the scalability of RFID deployments.

A Mojix Star system consists of one or more Star receivers each managing up to 512 Enode transmitters, which are oriented to define the system's three-dimensional coverage area.

Mojix Enode transmitters provide energy to all passive RFID tags within their specified interrogation spaces.

The centralised, high-sensitivity Star receiver processes the resulting tag signals from across the system's 25,000m2 coverage area, including non line-of-sight tag signals.

This receive sensitivity is the result of Mojix's use of advanced digital signal processing, phased array receiver, digital beam forming and digital packet radio to detect the faintest signals across large distances in noisy RF environments.

From a system management standpoint, the Mojix Star provides a single point of control, and management for all its distributed Enodes, and a single point of integration with enterprise systems.

Enodes, meanwhile, work in conjunction with the Star receiver to simultaneously support multiple business processes in a single system.

The Enodes are deployable and re-deployable as needed to define shape discrete, overlapping or contiguous interrogation spaces.

They operate within ETSI-compliant power limits to provide energy to all passive RFID tags within their designated interrogation spaces.

All Mojix Enodes are sensor capable.

Mojix offers a full line of Enodes to cover any type of location and use case.

These include wired Enodes for fixed location deployment, indoors or outdoors, where power is delivered to the Enode through the Star system via coaxial cable.

The line also includes wireless Enodes for mobile use cases and other applications where local power is preferable to coaxial power delivery.

Mojix has also introduced a range of multiple port Enodes that provide the ultimate in flexible, economic and reliable tag interrogation.

Wired or wireless, a multiple port Enode possess between one and four external antennas (available in a variety of types) that can be positioned in a variety of ways to precisely fit particular application needs.

To make real-time location estimation and tracking an integral part of passive RFID deployments, Mojix has developed the Elocation software, a component of the Star system.

Elocation continuously determines the location of passive RFID tagged items to within 1m, indoors or outdoors, and enables organisations to accurately track the movement of these items in real time.

It eliminates the need for use of costly 'active' RFID tags, separate WiFi infrastructure and proprietary systems to perform real-time location tracking.

Consequently, a single system can be used to read tags and determine location, which removes the need to special-tag items just for location tracking in a passive RFID environment.

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