EasyTunnel™ RFID enabled kit tracking solution

The RFID Challenge:

End users who supply medical devices to hospitals and surgeons are now realizing the benefit of leveraging RFID to isolate individual items and medical device or loaner kits in a specified location; however they need to do so without picking up extra RFID reads outside the tunnel area; and they want to do this without stopping an existing processes. Today medical device and orthopaedic companies stop and scan 2-D bar codes to ensure serialized items are tracked properly (or use 1-D barcodes for non-serialized items). This manual process is time consuming and halts the efficient flow of medical kits to ensure data accuracy. Whether you are receiving medical or loaner kits, building or replenishing or shipping them (or single items) being able to accurately record the data is essential; making the process faster and less labor intensive is vital in a competitive industry like medical devices.

The RFID Medical Kit Tracking Tunnel Solution:

The ODIN EasyTunnel™ is included standard in theEasyKit™ solution and is the only commercial UHF tunnel on the market currently deployed at 60% of the leading medical device manufacturers designed specifically for medical device kit and loaner kit tracking. Designed by the ODIN RFID physics experts, the steel framed enclosure houses complete antenna arrays, readers, and connections and can even encode and print RFID tags. Rigorous testing and physics proficiency ensures 99.9% read rates of even the most RFID unfriendly materials in a compact single unit that mounts to any stand size conveyor belt (assuming proper tag testing of items). A drop-in unit that, when paired with ODIN Kit Management or other RFID management software, seamlessly integrates into any workflow requiring no additional hardware.

RFID Medical Kit Tracking Tunnel Solution Components

• The EasyTunnel™ solution is configured based on customer requirements and includes the following features:
• Tunnel with integrated RFID reader configuration
• Conveyor mounting kit
• Optional conveyor section shipped with tunnel
• Optional touch screen
• Optionally bundled with computer printer
• Optional light stack
• Implementation and support services

The RFID Tunnel Result:

RFID that is easy and accurate with less hassle for internal IT executives. Faster and more accurate kit receiving, building, replenishment, and shipping processes – up to a 12 times improvement with added functionality. The solution reduces labor cost and increases supply chain velocity for kit tracking, distribution and receipt. The drop in unit creates a completely enclosed read zone perfect for medical kits, tools, and other high value assets.

For real world results check out ODIN's RFID PDF case studies.