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RFID GPS Solutions, RFID Biometrics and Location Services

RFID GPS Solutions RFID gps tracking is very well, a lot cheaper and better than the standard standalone RFID gps tracking system. The RFID GPS system are tagged to vehicles and other things, therefore making it easier to pick up the signal once the item is the location. Integrating GPS, RFID and navigation system addresses Child safety issues and SMS messages can be sent to parent/ guardian at various stages of child movement such as boarding the bus, entering school premises, class room and reaching pick up point. We provide comprehensive solutions. We provide GPS monitoring devices with built in RTC, RFID, USB interface, blue tooth or RF(GSM) communication We also supply RFID and Tamper proof seals for containers to ensure the contents are not tampered during transit. Individual stock keeping units can be secured with RFID enabled Cable ties. Integrating GPS, RFID and navigation system addresses Child safety issues and SMS messages can be sent to parent/ guardian at various stages of child movement such as boarding the bus, entering school premises, class room and reaching pick up point. We provide comprehensive solutions. We provide GPS monitoring devices with built in RTC, RFID, USB interface, blue tooth or RF(GSM) communication We also supply RFID and Tamper proof seals for containers to ensure the contents are not tampered during transit. Individual stock keeping units can be secured with RFID enabled Cable ties. GPS Asset Tracking Systems are fairly energy intensive. Once the GPS has determined the location of the “asset,” it must communicate that information, which consumes a significant amount of energy. To deal with this energy depletion, GPS-based locating systems are frequently powered by the vehicle’s battery (in vehicular/moving equipment use cases). We provide RFID GPS solutions in combination with RFID, Biometrics for location and navigation services. This ensures authentic and verified information for presence detection required in security zones, campuses and at the point of boarding vehicles, such as school buses, transport vehicles and Taxis. The Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) was used for accurate position fixing during bathymetric surveying and for general-purpose hydrographic/(geo)hydrological applications and present GPS systems for navigation and location management uses this method for accuracy and we deploy in our solutions for mining, transport and campus management applications.Integrating GPS, RFID and navigation system addresses Child safety issues and SMS messages can be sent to parent/ guardian at various stages of child movement such as boarding the bus, entering school premises, class room and reaching pick up point. We provide comprehensive solutions.We provide GPS monitoring devices with built in RTC, RFID, USB interface, blue tooth or RF(GSM) communication.Individual stock keeping units can be secured with RFID enabled Cable ties.

Deciding what GPS tracks and what RFID identifies

A combined RFID and GPS deployment works best when you decide, point by point, what genuinely needs continuous location and what only needs a verified identity at a moment in time. GPS answers “where is this now, and where has it been”; RFID answers “what passed this point, and when”. The two rarely need to cover the same objects: the vehicle earns the GPS unit, while the trailer behind it, the cargo inside it and the people passing through the gate are identity questions a passive tag settles.

For vehicles, containers and cargo that means passive UHF on the 865-868 MHz band India allocates for RFID — delicensed under WPC rules as of 2026, and worth confirming against the current WPC notification before you specify hardware. Passive UHF is EPC Gen2, formally ISO/IEC 18000-63 and marketed as RAIN RFID; those three terms apply only to passive UHF, never to HF or NFC products. Read distance is typically up to around 10-15 m with a fixed reader in clear conditions, and noticeably less on metal, on small tags, or through metallised windscreens. Treat any range figure as environment-dependent and confirm it on site before fixing antenna positions.

What you are identifyingSuitable hardwareTechnology
Vehicle at a gate or weighbridgeWindshield tag read by a fixed or gate readerPassive UHF 865-868 MHz
Trailer, tanker, skip, plant itemOn-metal or rugged sealed hard tagPassive UHF 865-868 MHz
Container or stock unit to be sealedCable-tie tagPassive UHF 865-868 MHz
Person boarding a bus or entering a zonePVC or PETG card, or wristband, tapped at a readerHF 13.56 MHz (ISO 14443, Mifare/DESFire)
Live position indoors or with no sky viewBLE beacon read by fixed gatewaysBLE 2.4 GHz

The person row is the one worth pausing on. Boarding confirmation wants a deliberate tap, so HF 13.56 MHz suits it: the short read distance is the feature, not a limitation. A UHF reader at a bus door would happily log every child standing near it, and you would spend the rest of the project filtering out reads you never wanted.

Timestamps are what join the two data sets, so reader events and GPS fixes need to run off a common clock, and readers at remote gates need to hold events locally and forward them when the link returns — worth writing into the specification rather than assuming. Every reader we supply ships with an SDK, demo app and source code, so these events can feed your existing fleet or campus platform instead of a second console.

Frequently asked questions

Does Identium manufacture the RFID and GPS hardware itself, and is it made in India?

The tags are made in our own factory in New Delhi — windshield tags, on-metal hard tags, cable-tie seal tags, cards and wristbands — and we supply the reader side: fixed, gate, handheld and desktop UHF readers, antennas, printers, BLE beacons and biometric devices. The GPS monitoring devices we provide, including units with a built-in real-time clock and USB, Bluetooth or GSM communication, are sourced rather than built by us. Practically, that means printing, laser marking, encoding and serial numbering stay under our control, with custom tags typically taking five to ten days and every unit tested in-house before dispatch, while the tracker electronics are specified and integrated rather than manufactured here. We sell across India and export.

What drives the cost of a combined RFID and GPS project, and how do you quote it?

There is no single unit price, because a combined deployment is priced as three separate lines. The tag population moves with type and duty — a printed windshield tag, an on-metal hard tag and a sealed cable-tie tag are different products — and with printing, encoding and serial numbering. Fixed infrastructure follows how many lanes or gates you cover and how many antenna ports each needs, since a two-lane gate that has to be read in both directions is rarely served by one reader. GPS units are counted per vehicle, and the cellular data plan behind them is a recurring cost to budget alongside the hardware rather than part of it. We quote against a written specification: gate count, lane geometry, what is being tagged, and volumes. Nothing here carries a list price.

What approvals do we need in India — for the RFID side and for the GPS side?

Treat them as two questions. For RFID, India allocates 865-868 MHz for UHF under the WPC's 2021 short-range-device exemption rules, and that band is licence-exempt, so no per-site licence is normally involved — but the reader and antenna must be approved and configured for that band rather than arriving tuned for the US band of roughly 902-928 MHz. Our UHF readers and antennas are WPC-approved for India's licence-exempt UHF RFID band, and our units are BIS certified. The GPS side is separate and we make no equivalent claim for it: location tracking devices on commercial passenger vehicles are, as of 2026, reported to fall under India's AIS-140 VLTD standard, which is a question about the specific tracker model and vehicle category rather than about the RFID hardware. Confirm both positions against current WPC, BIS and transport-authority guidance before you fix a specification.

How do you tag an all-metal trailer, tanker or container so that it actually reads?

With a purpose-built on-metal (anti-metal) UHF tag, not a standard label. Metal detunes a plain UHF inlay and can stop it reading altogether, whereas an on-metal tag is built with a spacer and designed to use the metal surface as part of its antenna environment, so mounting it flat against steel is the condition it is made for. Attachment matters as much as the tag: rivets through an existing flange, epoxy where there is nothing to rivet to, adhesive on a prepared surface, and a cable-tie tag where the fixing also has to act as a tamper-evident seal. For wash-down, vibration or chemical exposure we use ultrasonic welding or epoxy potting. Read distance on metal is typically shorter than free-air figures suggest and depends heavily on the surroundings, so confirm it on the actual asset before you commit to antenna positions.

Can a tag be moved to another vehicle or cloned, and would we know?

Physical transfer is addressed at the tag: windshield tags can be specified as tamper-evident, so the antenna is destroyed when the tag is peeled and it cannot simply be lifted onto a second vehicle — ask for that construction explicitly rather than assuming it. Cloning is a different problem. A passive UHF EPC is openly readable by design, so treat it as an identifier, not a secret, and hold the entitlement in your own database where it can be revoked the moment a vehicle is sold or a contract ends. This is where a GPS layer earns its place: if a gate logs a tag while the vehicle's GPS trail puts it elsewhere, you have a duplicate to investigate. Where the credential itself must resist copying, such as a driver card, use HF 13.56 MHz with mutual authentication — Mifare DESFire under ISO 14443 — rather than UHF.

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