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At AVAANA we assist you to understand and arrive at the best solution for your RFID needs. Beginning with senior executives, we help them understand and devise corporate strategy to leverage RFID technologies for providing their companies with the global competitive edge required in an environment of improving efficiencies. We help middle level management devise implementation strategies and plans to devise the most appropriate solution for their needs. We help technical management to devise technology and support plans to ensure the most appropriate technologies are leveraged for implementation from a cost and function perspective. AVAANA will demonstrate the benefits of RFID deployment and explain the variables involved along with the approach and the cost. We then help validate the approach via a proof of concept plan. If required, a pilot is run to identify and demonstrate the appropriate solution and offer optimizations to existing and new processes. Every effort is made to best serve our clients through regular updates and testing of latest innovations, especially as this technology becomes more ubiquitous in our corporate and personal environments. AVAANA can help you select the proper system consisting of tags, readers, antennae and software, and devise your overall system. If required, we can create custom, innovative solutions to meet the customer’s special needs. The technology involves expertise in both overall systems architecture and design, and the hardware and software components including networking. Particular attention is paid to the aspects of scalability as part of the overall integration of the technology solution The AVAANA team can integrate both customized and standardized RFID solutions to deliver the value desired by the customer. The deployment of radio frequency identification systems needs a thorough understanding of the scale of operations where the technology has to be put into place. Since RFID is not plug-n-play, it becomes important to develop a preliminary understanding of the challenges of the environmental factors for a technology solution. An important preliminary RF assessment is conducted to help the experts acquire an understanding of the potentially challenging RF characteristics of the building/environment that may be present. The implementation team can then chart a deployment plan for the project. RFID systems operate in challenging electromagnetic environments and are required to give high performance at all times. It is necessary to design simulations and models for RFID deployment such that the ultimate solution deployment is effortless and error-free. Location information is also taken into account so simulations and models can be developed with the correct idea of the complexity and reasoning of the location. While there are off-the-shelf products available for several aspects of RFID deployment, sometimes many specialized individual system components have to be developed or adapted for a particular need. AVAANA has the expertise to innovate in all the following areas: ► Hardware Design The company develops custom readers and tags across multiple frequency ranges. Various components are also evaluated in our labs. The amount of data each tag holds, the form the tags need to be in, the range and the capacity of each tag and how much access does it have-all this can be worked upon for the right hardware solution. ► Software Design Custom applications are developed for a host of RFID applications. All aspects of the overall system, from the interface to the logic programs can be customized or written from scratch. Interfaces are provided to a variety of custom and standard software applications when needed. ► Antenna Design AVAANA is a specialist in developing specialized, multi-frequency, low-cost antennae. The size and shape of these can change the read range of an RFID system. Special services are provided to meet your range, frequency and cost requirements. ► Network Application & Management Apart from working with the individual components, AVAANA helps create and maintain the RFID network. The structure is devised for ease of maintenance. The management of this network includes add/delete functions for any hardware element across the network, constant monitoring and reporting, software download management and other related services. ► Security Design Any exchange of data needs to be secure and limited to systems that are authorized to get it. Since RFID has unique codes for each individual tagged object, it is important that the information about it remains secure and reaches only those people who are allowed access to it. Our solutions provide authentication to deliver secure access to data. Each company has different and sometimes unique requirements for automatic identification of their assets, personnel or physical, Any RFID deployment should be able to adapt to the existing systems in the company. The team at AVAANA works closely with the system analysts of the existing corporate systems to ensure total compatibility and adaptability between the systems. Together the two teams can also determine if an enhancement or change is needed in the existing system. From consultation to development to deployment and then maintenance, AVAANA has complete solutions for all RFID needs. While each of the services is available separately, we also work on a turnkey project basis to deploy RFID systems in an organization. Deployment of solutions is not limited to technical expertise, it also involves logistics like wiring (the antennae wire with appropriate characteristics is needed) and hardware installation. In some cases it may also involve the automation of processes for the first time. After the system has been developed and tested out, the deployment team sets about tagging objects, installing readers, setting up the network and testing it all out. In order to help our customers adapt seamlessly to the deployed RFID processes, we offer to train them on site. The training educates them about the benefits and limitations of RFID, how to take best advantage of it, what kind of information an RFID system can provide, and how it can be used to make processes more efficient. The training program also focuses on the utilization of the deployed equipment. In short, training enables you to get the most out of your RFID system. AVAANA offers training hands-on, on the interface, as well as on the software and hardware packages. Depending on who gets into it at what level, we scale the training programs for everyone from supply chain executives to policy makers. Maintenance, Testing & Customer Support Customer satisfaction is of primary importance to AVAANA. We understand the importance of a seamless transition to an RFID enabled system without disruption. Therefore, we extend the customer support infrastructure to provide timely maintenance and intelligent response to any problems. The support service is delivered at the schedule suitable to the customer. This can be provided at any time of the day by sending e-mail, posting a query on a Website or making a simple phone call. We also try to ensure that the same individuals respond to a particular customer’s need so that over time they can understand the customer’s business and proactively resolve their particular issues. Where the systems support it, our engineers can remotely test your systems and access them to diagnose problems. This makes the turn-around time for support much shorter. |