Working with The Danby Group, Beaver Street Fisheries set up an RFID test lab in its warehouses and conducted three pilot projects. The Danby Group integrated the smart label printing/encoding operations with Beaver Street’s enterprise applications using rfid>Genesis, a software integration product developed by Franwell Inc., and tested various label placement options and types of EPC technology.

To label the subset of its cases and pallets that require EPC tags for Wal-Mart, Beaver Street Fisheries developed a cart-mounted smart labeling solution. A Zebra R110Xi printer on the cart encodes RFID inlays embedded within the label material and prints a 4-by-6-inch label in a single pass. The printer validates that tags are readable before they are encoded. If the tag is unreadable, “VOID” is automatically printed on the label, and a new label is encoded and produced.