RAIN Technology
RAIN is a standards-based, wireless technology that connects trillions of everyday items to the internet, enabling businesses and consumers to identify, locate, authenticate, and engage each item.
RAIN is the fastest-growing segment of the RFID market, with over 1 billion RAIN chips shipped every week in 2024! To date, this powerful technology has connected hundreds of billions of items, providing the ability to:
- Uniquely identify individual items beyond just their product type
- Identify and locate items without direct line-of-sight
- Identify many items quickly (up to 1,000 items per second)
- Read items within a range of between a few centimeters to several meters
In simple terms, RAIN is a technology that uses a reader to read and write a tagged item, manage the data, and take action. RAIN provides rich, real-time data and insights for various applications, including inventory management, asset tracking, and supply chain optimization across many industry sectors.
A RAIN system is a standards-based, wireless system where the tags and readers both implement the RAIN air-interface protocol and the tags are encoded utilizing controlled numbering practices, either following applicable ISO standards or the GS1 EPC TDS.
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