One reason many Small Medium Enterprises do not readily adopt RFID technology is they do not have the capital expenditure to deploy the various RFID equipment that they may only need to use once or twice a year or during selected intervals. Also there is the cost of maintenance of the equipment to factor into the equation.

Instead of providing RFID as a solution, Smartag is working closely with other telecommunication service providers to provide RFID as a managed service bundled together with broadband access. This enables companies to realize the potential of RFID immediately. Smartag Solutions Bhd is able to fill this niche by offering these SMEs the option to rent or lease RFID equipment on a short term basis.

For example, a company would like to conduct an annual audit on its fixed assets. The company can engage Smartag to provide the RFID printer and handheld readers on a rental basis for the duration of time that they conduct the audit. The assets would be tagged once and then in subsequent years they can rent the readers whenever they want to do another audit.

Another example would be an events company that would like to use RFID tagging to identify and track the delegates attending a conference. They could arrange to lease the fixed readers and door gantries to enable this technology to be used at their event. Similarly, exhibitors could rent RFID enabled kiosks which could provide them valuable information regarding the visitors to their booth.

Smartag also provides customers a breadth of advanced RFID-related technology, such as tags, readers, middleware and software application for tracking, tracing, inventory management and security. All the while helping to keep the customer’s operating costs low.