The INLAN Advantage
INLAN delivers 40m+ range, UWB-level localization, and built-in sensors, battery-free and at cents per tag. Everything operations leaders have been asking for. Nothing they haven't needed.
Head-to-Head Comparison
INLAN sits at a unique intersection: the cost profile of passive RFID, the capabilities of active UWB tags.
Passive
Battery-Free Active
Active / Battery
01 / Cost
The INLAN chip costs cents, directly comparable to passive RFID tags. Active and battery-powered tags (UWB, Bluetooth) run anywhere from $20 to $100 or more per unit, and that's before you factor in battery replacement programmes across thousands of assets.
Customers tell us cost is the gating factor every time. They want the location intelligence of active tags, but the economics of passive. INLAN delivers exactly that, with no compromise required.
~200× less expensive per tag vs active tags
Read Range Comparison
02 / Range
INLAN tags achieve 40+ metre read range. Passive RFID tops out at around 10 metres. That's not a marginal improvement: it fundamentally changes how many readers you need to deploy.
Longer range means fewer readers per square metre, fewer cable runs, fewer installation days, and a dramatically lower infrastructure cost. The 40m range is consistently the moment in a conversation where operations leaders stop and lean in.
Infrastructure Efficiency
The same warehouse floor. Dramatically fewer readers required.
~10m read range per reader
40m+ read range per reader
~30× lower infrastructure cost per m² vs active tags
03 / Localization
Passive RFID localization tops out at roughly 1.5 metres best-case, and only with specialist readers designed for it. Most deployments offer nothing better than "in this zone."
INLAN delivers UWB-level precision and does it continuously in real time. With passive tags, reconstructing where items are across a warehouse or store floor can take on the order of 15 minutes or more depending on setup. INLAN tracks movement as it happens: direction, speed, dwell time, all live.
Reconstructing location data…
Can take 15+ minutes depending on setup
Continuously updated in real time
Built-In Sensing
Temperature
Confirmed
Movement & Speed
Derived from location data
Extensible Architecture
Additional sensor types as needs evolve
Relevant for
04 / Sensors
Every INLAN tag includes a built-in temperature sensor, a confirmed capability that opens up cold chain use cases in food and pharmaceutical logistics where passive RFID simply can't deliver.
Because INLAN tracks location continuously, movement and speed data come standard, derived directly from position updates with no separate motion sensor required. The platform is architected to support additional sensor types as market needs evolve.
Passive RFID tags can't reliably power sensors: there isn't enough harvested energy. INLAN's approach removes that constraint entirely.
Tracking Speed
The difference between knowing where your assets are right now, and knowing where they were 15 minutes ago.
See the Difference
Talk to us about your tracking challenge. We'll show you exactly how INLAN compares to what you're using today, on your floor, at your scale.
Or reach us directly at info@inlantech.com