Best RFID Passive UHF Reader, Stationary Performance-focused

The Impinj Speedway Revolution

The Impinj Speedway Revolution built upon their previous Speedway reader by adding hardware features including better receive sensitivity, interference rejection, and item-level carrier cancellation.  It is also is 80% smaller and consumes 57% less power.

The Speedway Revolution achieved some of the furthest read distances we’ve ever seen.  On cardboard, the Revolution offered great performance across the board with the more popular passive RFID labels.  When we tried a Battery Assisted Passive RFID label, the Revolution set a read distance record of 157 feet with the PowerID PowerG. That’s the furthest we’ve ever seen a Gen 2 complaint label read. On metal, the Omni-ID Ultra was read 135 feet away and the PowerID PowerM RFID label was read 153 feet away.

Since Impinj has set the Speedway Revolution four antenna port model at $1,585 and $1,385 for the two port model. we have to give them a Best-in-Class Award.

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