Introducing the Times-7 Packing Station Antenna

There is no other antenna like this on the market.
Many comparable solutions need several antennas
positioned at different orientations to achieve wide
coverage and maintain performance in environments with
high tag density.

Our 4-port antenna solves this by switching electronically
between multiple beams, each with different tilt angles and
polarisation diversity. This built-in beam agility ensures
consistent coverage and enables rapid, accurate reading of
dense tag populations, all with a single antenna instead of
several.

For tech heads this means, it contains a regular array of
radiating elements, split into groups and fed with
controlled phase delays. By switching reader ports in
sequence, the system “scans” through polarisations and
beam tilts so at least one beam strongly couples to each
tag, boosting accuracy with dense, mixed-orientation
items.

Traditional setups often require operators to shake, rotate, or
manually adjust a package to ensure all tags are captured.

The packing station antenna significantly reduces this manual
handling by providing greater read-point diversity, leveraging
multiple beam angles, positions, and polarisation states. This
enhanced coverage ensures faster, more consistent tag reads
and smoother, more efficient workflows.

It offers several meaningful operational benefits. 

Installation is fast and straightforward, reducing labour time and associated costs.  It also decreases material expenses by replacing complex, multi-antenna configurations with a single, versatile antenna. 

Its slim and compact design allows it to fit easily into smaller workspaces, making it ideal for facilities with limited room or constrained layouts.
 
Simple form factor enables seamless integration into existing systems. 

Its superior near-field performance ensures reliable reads on hard-to-read tagged items and items positioned close to the antenna surface. 

Importantly, the antenna allows smaller facilities to achieve package-verification performance on par with that of large distribution centres, without requiring the same scale of infrastructure.

This is a four-port antenna, with four rear connectors for attaching to a reader.

Flush mounted to surface or wall or be included into tunnel or conveyor arch.

It is not designed to be directly mounted under a rubber conveyor.  

Note: Should your use case require mounting directly under a conveyor belt, we recommend the A6011 and A6015, which come with a conveyor belt-compatible housing. 

It can, however, be mounted on the sides and top of all conveyors and directly under the roller conveyor belt.

Any point load must not exceed 100psi (7kg/ cm2) and the maximum distributed load on the antenna should not exceed 1100lbs (500kg).

In a static configuration the Packing Station Antenna is able to read thousands of densely packed tags in seconds.

No, the antenna is a multilinear tilted beam and can be mounted in a variety of orientations whilst maintaining performance.