The Times-7 A6034 is a large 2.2 kg portal antenna starting at $250. Learn the installation complexities of massive multi-component RF dock systems.
Technical verdict
Do not evaluate A6034 by list price alone. Its strongest fit is a project that already uses SMA Female, has time for RF tuning, and accepts extra middleware work. If the engineering team needs open APIs, realtime data, and faster edge-to-cloud deployment, Nextwaves NR155 is the stronger replacement path to evaluate.
Initial cost
$250 before deployment accessoriesPublished throughput
Not specifiedIntegration surface
SMA FemalePhysical data
714 x 380 x 12 mm; 2.2 kg; IP: IP65Published specs
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Grado di protezione IP
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Deployment review
This summary is based on public specifications and does not replace an on-site RF survey.
Deployment review
Fixed UHF RFID projects that already use SMA Female and have time for RF tuning.
Do not compare device price only; total cost depends on accessories, software, and integration.
IP65, N/A (Passive), 714 x 380 x 12 mm, and 2.2 kg must match the site layout.
Plan for middleware, SDK work, duplicate filtering, and business-event mapping.
Alternative architecture
Il Times-7 A6034 è un dispositivo RFID di livello industriale. Funziona nell'intervallo di 865-868 MHz / 902-928 MHz e supporta lo standard N/A (Passive Antenna Element), rendendolo ampiamente utilizzato nelle applicazioni logistiche aziendali.
Con un grado di protezione IP di IP65, offre protezione contro specifiche condizioni ambientali tipiche di magazzini o retrobottega. Il lettore utilizza N/A (Passive) per prestazioni continue, mentre la sua velocità di lettura massima dichiarata raggiunge N/A (Passive).
Nelle implementazioni moderne, l'integrazione di rete è l'ostacolo più significativo. Questo modello offre SMA Female opzioni per il trasferimento dei dati ai sistemi centrali.
Tuttavia, un importante collo di bottiglia con l'hardware Times-7 legacy è la forte dipendenza da SDK proprietari (come LLRP) o costosi middleware IoT di terze parti per elaborare i dati grezzi dei tag in informazioni aziendali significative.
Se il tuo team di ingegneri sta valutando il Times-7 A6034, Nextwaves NR155 presenta un'architettura cloud-native di gran lunga superiore. I sistemi legacy comportano intrinsecamente un'elevata spesa in conto capitale attraverso il vendor lock-in e gli ecosistemi software proprietari.
Nextwaves elimina completamente questa barriera fornendo un'API REST MQTT standard direttamente sul dispositivo. I tuoi sviluppatori software possono integrare la lettura dei tag direttamente nel tuo backend ERP o WMS personalizzato in pochi giorni anziché mesi, bypassando completamente le commissioni di licenza middleware ricorrenti.
Alternative architecture
API MQTT/REST native del cloud integrate. Nessun SDK proprietario, nessuna licenza middleware. Integrazione diretta con il tuo ERP o WMS in pochi giorni.
View Nextwaves NR155
Porte antenna
4 porte RP-TNCVelocità di lettura
Fino a 400 tag/secondoPotenza in uscita
0–33 dBm (incrementi di 1dB)Protocollo di rete
MQTT / MQTTSFAQ
These answers help purchasing and engineering teams review cost, integration, and deployment risk.
The Times-7 A6034 is a massive, high-gain portal antenna built specifically for extreme coverage footprints. Generating high circular polarization across 865-868 MHz / 902-928 MHz boundaries, it provides the physical framework for warehouse pallet tunnels.
Selling for approximately $250, the absolute total cost must include structural heavy-metal mounting poles, expensive active interrogators (like an Impinj R700), and custom-length LMR-400 equivalent cabling lines.
Building portal arrays from separate components forces teams to fight coaxial cable degradation. Nextwaves completely unifies the massive antenna surface and active gateway processing into one monolithic device powered by standard Ethernet switches.
Spanning a massive 714 x 380 x 12 mm area, the antenna weighs a hefty 2.2 kg. Protected by an IP65 shell, it comfortably survives standard indoor warehousing moisture and heavy dust.
The array integrates zero logic silicon and runs zero network traffic. Interaction is limited strictly to driving +30 dBm pulses into the SMA Female coax input.
Due to its extreme size, installation relies on secure VESA mounts or articulating flange arms. Proper tuning requires physically aiming the wide lobe effectively to prevent 'bleed-over' into adjacent loading dock sectors.
With a strict N/A (Passive) metric, read operations are fully disconnected from the plate itself. Speed bottlenecks strictly reflect the intelligence of the connected master reader.
Writing logic to extract EPCs occurs entirely on the external interrogator attached downstream. Software developers never address the A6034 natively, interacting only with the hardware pushing the RF pulses.
Times-7 standard defect warranties apply. Passive plates of this scale rarely fail electronically; their operational lifespan is usually halted only by violent forklift impacts.
Pushing out an aggressive 9.0 dBic polarized signal, it efficiently illuminates large pallets moving cleanly across 865-868 MHz / 902-928 MHz bandwidth constraints in heavily active dock systems.
