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A Guide to Best-Fit Applications for Active RFID System Alternatives Introduction Wireless systems have evolved to successfully penetrate the world of personal communications, where virtually all people can talk as needed on-demand with a feature rich and flexible set of alternatives. This world of people talking is now being complemented with a wireless world of all things “talking” – in other words, all things are becoming wireless. As these new systems continue to evolve to meet their best-fit applications in the enterprise, matching each one’s unique characteristics to the application is not always clear to the prospective end user or even to a providing system integrator. Passive RFID system solutions are well known for their strengths and weaknesses in various tagging applications from access control to the supply chain. Active RFID/RTLS offers many more application opportunities for labor free automatic identification, counting, locating, sensing and protecting of assets; however, active RFID solutions today are being addressed using a handful of different system architectures. The mapping of best-fit characteristics for each is critical to achieving a workable system with the necessary reliability and at the lowest cost. What follows is a best-fit application analysis of the various active RFID system architecture alternatives for enterprise tagging solutions. The Foundation Enterprise RFID systems can generally be categorized as either “passive” or “active,” with passive tags using the received signal for power and active tags using an embedded battery for power. Passive deployments typically occur in the high-frequency and ultra-high-frequency (HF/UHF radio bands with applications such as the tracking of goods in the supply chain. They typically have low cost tags with higher cost infrastructures. Passive tag transmissions are also limited to the power of reflective (or backscatter signaling and, as such, only transmit reliably in inches up to a few feet