RFID Technology Opportunity from NASA

NASA's Johnson Space Center has a suite of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies available to companies and institutions for licensing. These devices are commonly used for autonomous inventory management with special interest in diverse product application and extended ranges. This technology opportunity video highlights NASA developed RFID technologies originally purposed for the International Space Station that have Earth applications in healthcare, retail, logistics, and many more industries.

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00:00:01 [ Music ] >> [Background Music] For more than 50 years scientists and engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have pioneered breakthroughs in medicine, computing, thermal materials and systems engineering. NASA technologies are innovative solutions that have complex patterns. These patented for technologies are available through a licensing agreement that can enable entrepreneurs to create new products and new market opportunities

00:00:28 for business. [ Music ] >> [Background Music] So the technology right now that seems to most enable our concept of autonomous logistics management is radio frequency identification technology or RFID. A lot of the inventory that we want to try is designed behind [inaudible] enclosure. So it might be drawers such as this and in these drawers we typically have fairly high

00:00:53 density of tank items and so the challenge is getting fields into all of those items to where they can rectify the energy and respond back. So we think a better approach is to increase the size of the tag antenna. That allows the [inaudible] to receive more energy to [inaudible] circuit and then respond back. So with the technology that we developed and as the tag is rotated the beam automatically steers back towards the interrogator and maintains longer range.

00:01:20 So this is what we call our RFID dispenser. It allows us to track inventory of fairly small items without having to put a tag o each item. So this technology that we have in the dispenser keeping track of the inventory can be scaled to any level. We can track all types of objects without having to have RFID tags on each item. >> Extended range RFID sensor tags are a suit of patented Johnson Space Center technologies available for use through a license agreement through NASA.

00:01:48 Extended range RFID benefit a wide range of inventory management applications and can be sold to a wide range of markets. To find out more about NASA developed RFID technology and other technology license opportunities visit technology.jsc.nasa.gov. [ Music ] ------------------------------b388f9d00bfa--