Buy the reader that fits your business. Not the one our software forces on you.
Most RFID platforms quietly lock you into one hardware vendor. Ours doesn’t, and here’s the actual engineering reason why.
Every use case has a different ideal device. We support all of them.
Being hardware agnostic means more than accepting more reader brands. A stockroom cycle count, a fitting room read, and a DC audit station all call for genuinely different hardware, and Clarity is built to work with whichever one the job actually calls for.
Two integration paths. One consistent language either way.
Clarity meets hardware where it already lives, rather than forcing everything through the same pipe. There are two distinct paths, and the platform speaks one consistent language regardless of which one a given device uses.
Mobile & handheld devices
The Clarity app runs directly on the device and communicates straight to the Clarity platform. No gateway sits in between. Today, most of our deployed readers operate this way.
Fixed & infrastructure readers
These connect through Clarity Edge, our on-site edge computing gateway, which sits between the readers and the platform. This is specifically what makes fixed-reader hardware interchangeable.
What Clarity Edge does, for fixed infrastructure specifically
No lock-in on fixed hardware
Mix or swap reader brands without touching the platform. Edge absorbs the difference.
New hardware, no re-platforming
Supporting a new fixed reader means adding a translation in Edge, not rebuilding your system.
Resilient by design
Store and DC operations don’t stall just because the network hiccups.
Cleaner data, lighter load
The platform receives normalized, de-noised reads instead of raw, duplicate-heavy signal.
Either way, the data looks the same. Whether a read comes from a handheld talking directly to Clarity or a fixed reader passing through Edge, the platform receives standardized data. The device you pick never dictates how your data looks.
What’s actually running in production right now.
This is real, currently deployed hardware, in stores and in the distribution center, not a partner-logo wall.
Handhelds & mobile computers
Fixed readers
Audit stations & tunnels
In active validation now, not certified yet.
Certification is an ongoing process, not a one-time badge. These devices are currently in validation and will move to the certified list once they clear it.
Mobile devices
Fixed readers
Being hardware agnostic doesn’t mean hardware quality doesn’t matter.
Being open to any LLRP reader is different from recommending any LLRP reader. Bad hardware still produces bad reads, and a bad read looks like a ClarityRFID problem even when it isn’t. So every certified partner actually gets tested, not just added to a list.
Real-environment testing
Hardware gets tested against actual store and DC conditions, not just a lab bench.
Protocol compliance verification
We confirm the reader’s LLRP implementation actually behaves the way the standard says it should.
Field validation with a real deployment
Before a reader earns certification, it runs in a live environment, not just a demo.
Building RFID hardware? Get it certified with ClarityRFID.
If you make readers, handhelds, or DC audit hardware and want them certified for the retailers already running on ClarityRFID, we’d like to hear from you. Tell us about your hardware and we’ll walk you through what certification actually involves.
Start a hardware certification conversation