PICO series
The Best Small Rugged On Metal RFID Tags To Track Tools And Equipment In Industrial Environments
The PICO series offers exceptional size-to-read-range ratio, making them ideal RFID tags for aerospace tool control, data center asset management, and military weapon tracking.
Size matters to RF performance, with read range and accuracy decreasing with the tags’ dimensions.
Xerafy’s early innovation in small tag sizes and embeddable RFID tags that can be flush-mounted into metal helped break the expected range/size ratio barrier for RFID systems.
“Xerafy had the smallest tags, and they were willing to work with us on tuning so we could get exactly what we needed. We needed that size and flexibility to make this work.”
The PICO series provides a range of ideal tagging solutions for smaller items in challenging environments. The RFID tags are designed to deliver high performance for smaller metal assets, offering versatility and durability even under harsh conditions.
RFID Tag Small That Stands Out
The passive on-metal RFID tags in the PICO series are available in small rugged form-factors
designed to offer item-level tracking solutions without compromise
Small Sizes
Designed to fit any tool and production equipment
6 meters
Up to 6 meters / 20 feet read-range on-metal
Embeddable
Available in a version embeddable in metal
Durability
Withstand Hi-temp, Chemicals and Waterproof
Fast Tagging
Deployment at scale in the field: Epoxy, Heat-shrink tube, Adhesive
User Memory
Unique ID for identification and data encoding
The PICO series tags have been proven in the field at production facilities around the world, enabling asset tracking for small equipment and tools, alongside the MICRO high temperature tags, and the XS smallest RFID tags.
PICO On
The Reference For Tool Tracking
The Pico On is a rugged RFID tag designed to be mounted on tools and equipment, while exceeding competitive read range performance thanks to our patented printed antenna technology.
The ceramic tag is ideally suited to harsh environments where its exceptional durability matches the life of assets in the field.
PICO In
Embeddable In Metal
The Pico In offers a highly reliable rugged RFID tagging solution with its unique embeddable design.
Its breakthrough read distance to size ratio makes it ideally suited for OEM manufacturers looking to bring native RFID capabilities to their equipment for Aviation, Oil and Gas, Energy, and Defense.
PICO Plus
Packaged Design For Durability
The Pico Plus relies on high-performance engineered polymer to offer a small and most rugged RFID on-metal tag for production applications where critical and potentially hazardous situations require reliable identification of assets.
The IP68 rated tag achieves stunning read ranges and can be attached to tools, equipment, medical devices.
NANO Plus
Ultimate Range/Size
The Nano Plus is the best performing on metal RFID tag in the industry for its size, with read ranges of up to 6 meters.
It is constructed with industry-grade materials and rated IP68, to ensure high reliability and durability in all types of industrial environments.
Can PICO RFID Tags be customized?
All the RFID tags in the PICO series can be fully
personalized to support the deployment of your RFID system
Silk-printing for customized branding and identification
Marking
Durable laser engraving for permanent marking
Encode
User memory for
encoding and programming
Engineering
Frequency tweaks, Industrial adhesives, ATEX
Use Cases and Customers
The following use cases help illustrate the practical benefits of small, rugged RFID tags like the PICO series in various industries where identification and tracking at item-level come in support of operational workflows:
FAQs PICO series RFID Tags
What are the PICO RFID tags used for?
The PICO tags are used to track tools in various industries, including aerospace, manufacturing, foundry molds, production lines, construction tools, and oilfield equipment.
Their small sizes make them an ideal tagging solution for smaller asset in data centers as well as weapon tracking.
Small hand tools featuring Xerafy PICO On tags
Power tool featuring a Xerafy NANO Plus tag
How small are the PICO series RFID tags?
The PICO On is the smallest tag in the series at 12.80 mm x 7.08 mm x 3.08 mm.
Can the PICO RFID tags perform on metal?
Yes, they are RFID tags specifically designed to perform on metal surfaces.
Wrench featuring a Xerafy PICO On tag
Pliers featuring a Xerafy PICO Plus tag
As per the PICO In tag, it is uniquely embeddable in metal, e.g. flush mounted into a foundry mold.
PICO In embedded in metal components
What to read tools fitted with PICO series tags?
The PICO series tags work with all standard RFID readers from Zebra, Honeywell, TSL, etc that comply with EPCglobal Gen2v2 and ISO 18000-63 standards, also referred to as RAIN RFID.
The Xerafy engineering team can advise on RFID readers and antenna best suited to tool management enclosures such as tool cabinets and cribs, as well as as selection of rugged handheld RFID readers.
How to securely tag tools with RFID tags?
The PICO series come with a range of mounting solutions on and in metal, including industrial adhesives, epoxy, heat shrink, and embedding.
The Xerafy engineering team can advise on the PICO RFID tags and mounting solutions best suited to the tool inventory and environmental conditions.
How to securely tag weapons?
Best practices for RFID tagging of weapons are available in the video below and from the Xerafy engineering team.
