We have joined the
RAIN Alliance
The RAIN Alliance is a consortium of companies working together to create a smarter and more sustainable world by using RAIN technology to connect trillions of everyday items across their entire lifecycle in a simple and cost-effective way.
The boost we need
“Joining the RAIN Alliance is an important step for TSS COMPANY. It allows us to actively participate in the development of UHF RFID technology in mobile devices and to contribute to building the foundations of the Digital Product Passport. In the development of HarvesTag, collaboration in the area of mobile phones will have a significant impact on how users ultimately benefit from UHF RFID technology. We highly value the RAIN Alliance as a professionally managed organization whose leadership is deeply committed to advancing the global adoption of UHF RFID technologies.”
Peter Spiess
CEO, TSS COMPANY
ABOUT THE RAIN
RAIN is a standards-based, wireless technology that connects trillions of everyday items to the internet, enabling businesses and consumers to identify, locate, authenticate, and engage each item.
RAIN is the fastest-growing segment of the RFID market, with over 1 billion RAIN chips shipped every week in 2024! To date, this powerful technology has connected hundreds of billions of items, providing the ability to:
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Uniquely identify individual items beyond just their product type
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Identify and locate items without direct line-of-sight
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Identify many items quickly (up to 1,000 items per second)
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Read items within a range of between a few centimeters to several meters
In simple terms, RAIN is a technology that uses a reader to read and write a tagged item, manage the data, and take action. RAIN provides rich, real-time data and insights for various applications, including inventory management, asset tracking, and supply chain optimization across many industry sectors.
A RAIN system is a standards-based, wireless system where the tags and readers both implement the RAIN air-interface protocol and the tags are encoded utilizing controlled numbering practices, either following applicable ISO standards or the GS1 EPC TDS.