Long-form writing from the LIFO Technologies engineering team — embedded systems, AI & computer vision, and the industrial deployments behind them.
RFID in cylinder tracking sounds like the obvious upgrade until you put it inside a working gas plant. Tags struggle on steel, they do not sit well on a curved cylinder, and they rarely survive blasting, repainting and testing. The "anti-metal" tag every vendor recommends fixes the signal problem and leaves the durability problem exactly where it was.
The gas industry loses 10–40% of cylinders every year, per World Liquid Gas Association figures, and most of that loss goes unmeasured.…
This is why CATalytics is built around QR rather than RFID. A printed or etched code does not lose signal as it ages, and if a sticker ever wears, replacing it costs almost nothing. For cylinders that live for decades in rough conditions, a durable QR code gives you the same asset-level visibility, demurrage billing and test-date tracking the software provides, without the read-degradation and hardware overhead RFID brings to a cylinder fleet.
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