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By Mike_B
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We have an application that requires sensing moving tags with a ID12LA (or similar) reader. Our experience so far is that this reader / tag scheme is not capable of reading tags moving at more than about 50mm / sec. This is too slow for us. However, we can find no information on what speed it should be able to read tags at or any recommendations as to how to optimise the reading speed. We require at least one complete tag read as it passes over. Do you have any data or relevant information for such applications? Our tags are the 12mm glass types for animals and the sensing distance needs to be not less than 5mm.

Mike_B