Retail

Know what is on the shelf before the customer asks

Saturday afternoon. A customer wants the blue one, size M. The system says it is in stock. The shelf says it is not. At the same time, a jacket walks out the door unpaid. Stores lose twice: what they cannot find, and what they never saw leave.

What goes wrong on the shop floor

Stock on paper, not on the shelf

Counting with barcodes means scanning one piece at a time. So stores count rarely, the system drifts from reality, and nobody trusts the number when a customer is waiting.

Losses you discover weeks later

A piece leaves without being paid for. Nobody notices until the next count, and then nobody can say when or how. Alarms may ring, but they never tell you what left.

Slow counters, guesswork in the back

At checkout, every item is scanned by hand while the line grows. In the stockroom, staff open boxes to check what arrived. Both eat time at the moments that matter.

How RAIN RFID changes it

1
Every piece answers on its own
Each item carries a standard RAIN RFID tag, of your choice. A reader asks, and all tags in range reply. No line of sight, no scanning one by one.
2
Counting becomes walking
An employee walks the aisles with a handheld that reads over 1,100 tags per second. A count stops being an event that closes the store.
3
The exit watches itself
A portal at the door reads what crosses it and sends a silent alert to the Identix IRIS platform. No siren, no scene in front of customers.
4
The counter reads the basket
A near-field antenna at the counter reads the tagged items placed on it, together. The customer is not waiting while each piece is scanned.

Recommended setups

Identix ExitView retail anti-theft pedestal, front view, dark enclosure with two rectangular openings

Pair of Identix Portal Slim posts, each with a dark panel on a slim stand

Identix DR-pad flat black reader with its cable, angled view

The store exit

Problem: pieces leaving unpaid. ExitView arrives with an EM300 reader and antennas on both sides already built in, powered over PoE. For a smaller store, Portal Slim takes a DR-pad reader, sold separately.

ExitView Portal Slim DR-pad

Identix EM300 reader, angled view of the front panel with four gold SMA antenna connectors

Identix ANTNF1 near-field antenna, front view

Counter and checkout

Problem: a queue built on one-by-one scanning. An EM300 reader drives up to four ANTNF1 near-field antennas under or on the counter. Its keyboard emulation feeds software built for barcode scanners.

EM300 ANTNF1

Identix ID50 handheld data collector with pistol grip, trigger, touchscreen and RFID antenna panel, angled view

Identix CATENA unit with eight gold RF connectors along one side and mounting flanges, angled view

Stock counts and smart shelves

Problem: stock nobody trusts. Walk the store with an ID50 handheld. For shelves that count themselves, connect antennas through CATENA: one per reader port, up to 32 antennas on a four-port reader.

ID50 CATENA EM300

What you gain

Stock you can trust

Counts become quick enough to run often, so the system and the shelf agree more of the time. When a customer asks, the answer is right.

Losses seen on the day

You learn that a piece left today, not at the next count. Alerts are silent, so the team can act calmly.

A calmer queue

Tagged items are read together, not one by one. The cashier scans less and the customer waits less.

Questions we hear

Do you sell the tags?

No. Identix supplies readers, antennas, portals and accessories. Our readers work with standard RAIN RFID tags, so you choose the tags that suit your products and buy them from the supplier you prefer.

Does the exit portal sound an alarm?

ExitView has no siren. It sends events to the Identix IRIS platform as silent alerts. It also speaks MQTT(s), HTTP(s), websockets and sockets, so your own system can receive the same events.

Will it work with the software I already use?

Often, yes. Readers send data over standard protocols. The EM300 and the DR family can also type tag codes like a keyboard, so software built for barcode scanners can receive them without changes.

Can I build my own smart shelf?

Yes. MB and SAM modules measure 32 x 36 x 4 mm and fit inside shelves, cabinets and fridges. SAM modules also run your own code on the module itself, with no external host.