In recent years, the industry has seen an improvement in tag sensitivity and therefore

RAIN RFID applications have become return link limited, which means the readers fail

to hear the tag answer due to low backscatter power coming back to the reader.

Another reason for failure in deployment is the poor sensitivity of the RAIN RFID

readers. To overcome these challenges and improve the accuracy and read rates of

readers, the next generation of readers need to be highly sensitive, phase

independent, and insensitive to production caused variation of tag parameters such

as Backscatter Link Frequency (BLF) and timing tolerances

CISC RFID Xplorer (Xplorer) was CISC’s solution to overcome the challenge of testing

RAIN RFID readers on important parameters as developed by the RAIN RFID Alliance

and defined in the ISO standard ISO/IEC 18046-2. CISC added a fully configurable

Tag Emulator which allowed the measurement of reader transmit power and reader

receiver sensitivity through variable backscatter strength as proposed by the RAIN

RFID Alliance and ISO standard ISO/IEC 18046-2. The configurability of Xplorer along

with its capability of decoding tag and reader communication in real-time prompted

the R&D team from leading RAIN RFID reader manufacturers to use RFID Xplorer to

quantify the performance of their readers and accurately measure the read rates.

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