RFTRAQ is a UK technology company with a proprietary Active RFID platform. Designed as an ultra low power, long range wireless technology, it deploys IP addressable tags using multiple channels for two way communications to assure reliably high data rates. The tags and readers, together with a host of supporting engineering products and software, were announced as being commercially available in September 2007.
RFTRAQ's suites of in-house products were designed, developed and proven in commercial ooperations for News International Limited, the European subsidiary of News Corporation. The developed solution integrates the newsprint industry from end to end, including the manufacturing of paper, logistics and machine management and the production of newspapers themselves. The feasibility of the solution is made possible using actively tagged reusable recyclable aluminium cores developed by RFTRAQ, where innovation has overcome the physics of reading active tags through metal.
With 30 patents filed in the process of developing its solution, RFTRAQ is able to provide a total Active RFID enabled solution using in-house proprietary products, all of which have application in a variety of logistics, heavy and light industrial environments, including manufacturing plants themselves.