PICO series
The Best Small Rugged On Metal RFID Tags To Track Tools And Equipment In Industrial Environments
The PICO series from Xerafy specializes in small, on-metal RFID tags that are perfect for space-constrained applications in industries such as aerospace, manufacturing, data centers, and healthcare. These tags are crafted to deliver exceptional performance despite their compact size, ensuring reliable tracking in critical environments.
PICO series tags are uniquely designed for environments where traditional tags are too large or intrusive, such as tools and equipment. They are a testament to Xerafy’s award-winning innovation in RFID technology, offering tags with a breakthrough size-to-read distance ratio that does not compromise on durability or functionality.
These tags have been developed in partnership with industry leaders, ensuring they meet the rigorous standards required for high-stakes applications. The PICO series is field-proven and trusted by Fortune 500 companies across the globe for its reliability and performance.
“Xerafy had the smallest tags, and they were willing to work with us on tuning so we could get exactly what we needed. We needed that size and flexibility to make this work.”
Each PICO tag integrates advanced materials and packaging to protect against environmental challenges. The tags offer custom encoding capabilities, making them ideal for item-level asset management and operational efficiency in rigorous industrial settings.
Additionally, the PICO series offers an embeddable design that can be flush-mounted directly into metal, offering seamless integration for OEM manufacturers in the aviation, oil and gas, energy, and defense industries. This feature ensures optimal performance and reliability in applications where conventional tag placement is impractical.
For more rugged RFID tagging solutions, the PICO series works seamlessly with the MICRO series for industrial assets, the XS series for the smallest tags, and the robust ROSWELL series for ultra-rugged needs.
RFID Tag Small That Stands Out
The passive on-metal RFID tags in the PICO series are available in small rugged form-factors
designed to offer item-level tracking solutions without compromise
Small Sizes
Designed to fit any tool and production equipment
6 meters
Up to 6 meters / 20 feet read-range on-metal
Embeddable
Available in a version embeddable in metal
Rugged
Withstand Hi-temp, Chemicals and Waterproof
Fast Tagging
Deployment at scale in the field: Epoxy, Heat-shrink tube, Adhesive
Unique ID
Memory for item-level identification and secure data encoding
PICO On
The Reference For Tool Tracking
The PICO On is a rugged RFID tag designed to be mounted on tools and equipment, while exceeding competitive read range performance thanks to our patented printed antenna technology.
The ceramic tag is ideally suited to harsh environments where its exceptional ruggedness matches the life of assets in the field.
PICO Off
For Small Plastic Tools
The Xerafy PICO Off rugged RFID tag is designed for small, plastic tools and devices in tough industrial environments. With a 2-meter read range on plastic surfaces, this compact tag is durable against high temperatures, chemicals, and water. It supports fast deployment using epoxy, heat-shrink tubes, or adhesive, and offers item-level tracking with a unique ID and user memory.
PICO Mini 100/150/300
Small And Thin For Tool Tracking
The Xerafy PICO Mini RFID Tags are designed specifically for metal tools. With an ultra-thin profile of just 1mm, these tags seamlessly fit onto smaller items, ensuring efficient tracking and management.
Their rugged design can withstand shocks, hits, drops, vibrations, and water exposure, making them ideal for use in harsh industrial environments.
PICO In
Embeddable In Metal
The PICO In offers a highly reliable rugged RFID tagging solution with its unique embeddable design.
Its breakthrough read distance to size ratio makes it ideally suited for OEM manufacturers looking to bring native RFID capabilities to their equipment for Aviation, Oil and Gas, Energy, and Defense.
PICO Plus
Packaged Design For Ruggedness
The PICO Plus relies on high-performance engineered polymer to offer a small and most rugged RFID on-metal tag for production applications where critical and potentially hazardous situations require reliable identification of assets.
The IP68 rated tag achieves stunning read ranges and can be attached to tools, equipment, medical devices.
NANO Plus
Ultimate Range/Size
The NANO Plus is the best performing on metal RFID tag in the industry for its size, with read ranges of up to 6 meters.
It is constructed with industry-grade materials and rated IP68, to ensure high reliability and ruggedness in all types of industrial environments.
Can PICO RFID Tags be customized?
All the RFID tags in the PICO series can be fully
personalized to support the deployment of your RFID system
Printing
Compatible with printing: Serial numbers, IDs, Logo, 1D and 2D Barcodes
Marking
Support for permanent laser marking
Encoding
Support unique IDs and EPC serialization for item-level tracking
Engineering
Support custom engineering: Industrial adhesives, ATEX, frequencies
Case Studies
The following use cases help illustrate the practical benefits of small, rugged RFID tags like the PICO series in industries where identification and tracking at item level are critical to operational efficiency:
FAQs RFID Tagging with PICO series
What are the PICO RFID tags used for?
The small sizes of the PICO tags make them the ideal tagging solution to track tools in various industries, including aerospace, manufacturing, and construction. Applications extend to oilfield equipment, data centers as well as weapon tracking.
Small hand tools featuring Xerafy PICO On tags
Power tool featuring a Xerafy NANO Plus tag
How small are the PICO series RFID tags?
The PICO On is the smallest tag in the series at 12.80 mm x 7.08 mm x 3.08 mm.
Can the PICO RFID tags perform on metal?
Yes, they are RFID tags specifically designed to perform on metal surfaces. As per the PICO In tag, it is uniquely embeddable in metal, e.g. flush mounted into a foundry mold.
Wrench featuring a Xerafy PICO On tag
Pliers featuring a Xerafy PICO Plus tag
PICO In embedded in metal components
What RFID readers work with the PICO series?
The PICO series tags work with all standard RFID readers from Zebra, Honeywell, TSL, etc that comply with EPCglobal Gen2v2 and ISO 18000-63 standards, also referred to as RAIN RFID.
The Xerafy engineering team can advise on RFID readers and antenna best suited to tool management enclosures such as tool cabinets and cribs, as well as as selection of rugged handheld RFID readers.
How to securely tag tools with RFID tags?
The PICO series come with a range of mounting solutions on and in metal, including industrial adhesives, epoxy, heat shrink, and embedding.
The Xerafy engineering team can advise on the PICO RFID tags and mounting solutions best suited to the tool inventory and environmental conditions.
How to securely tag weapons?
Best practices for RFID tagging of weapons are available in the video below and from the Xerafy engineering team.
