I'm constantly impressed by the level of innovation in the RFID tag arena as more applications drive the development of specialised tags and the arrival of new tags drives new applications.

We've just started with two new ranges of tags that are getting some interest from our users. Firstly we now have access to some ATEX compliant tags which are suitable for use in environments where there is an explosive atmosphere. Since many manufacturing processes, especially in the petrochemical industries, have this form of troublesome environment these tags will extend the areas in which we can deploy solutions.

The second range of tags is adding to our range of tamper detection offerings. There are many applications for RFID in the area of validation of assets, these tags make the range of possibilities wider, adding the ability to detect tampering without destroying the data on the tag. It will be interesting to report on some of the applications for these down stream.