Overhead by design
Ceiling-mounted antennas stay clear of forklifts and carry the same read model from the dock door into staging, storage, and aisles.
Better than a D-Series portal.Omni-Scan RFID
Overhead passive RFID takes continuous inventory visibility beyond the dock door and into the warehouse.
Organizations that trust Omni-Scan:
- Emerson
- Cummins
- Pratt & Whitney
- BAE Systems
- DHL
- Pella
- Lockheed Martin
- United States Marine Corps
- United States Navy
- Caterpillar
Proven at F500 Scale.
50 antennas are deployed live at a Fortune 500 tool manufacturer.
This is the operational model a portal cannot reach: fixed, overhead, passive coverage that continues across docks, staging, and aisles instead of stopping at the door frame.
- antennas deployed live
- 50
- sq ft deployed
- 700,000
- pallets verified every year
- 450,000
06Omni-Scan makes the D-Series dock door obsolete.
Same RAIN RFID tags. A completely different ceiling, literally. Here’s the head-to-head.
RAMS Omni-Scan
D-Series dock door
Where it lives
Overhead, ceiling-mounted, completely out of forklift range
Floor-level portal frames at every single door
Direction
True inbound vs. outbound resolved on every read
A presence read, so direction is a guess
Fidelity
Steerable-beam 3D location, 1–3 ft accuracy
Tag seen / tag not seen
Past the dock
The same antennas keep counting inventory deep inside the warehouse, up to 5,000 sq ft each
Coverage ends at the door frame
Growing
Add doors and interior zones in software
Buy, install, and wire another portal
And when a portal frame takes a forklift hit, that door is down. There is nothing at floor level for a forklift to hit in an Omni-Scan facility.
07Overhead. Out of the way. Always reading.
One overhead system reads the work that happens after the door.
Omni-Scan creates an always-on physical inventory signal, then Omni-Ware turns that signal into structured events for the systems already running the operation.
Passive and continuous
RAIN RFID tags are read without a trigger, handheld, barcode line-of-sight, or operator action as inventory moves through coverage.
Directional in context
Configured zones turn a tag read into movement context: inbound, outbound, transfer, and the aisle or zone where it occurred.
Two models for every ceiling height.
Published CS Smart Antenna specifications pair a lower-ceiling, dock-focused installation with a larger antenna for wide-area, high-bay coverage.
Product model
CS-445B
45 ft range · 10–30 ft mount · PoE
Lower-ceiling installations and dock-door coverage
Product model
CS-490
75 ft range · 20–50 ft mount · PoE+
High-bay warehouses and wider facility coverage
| Specification | CS-445B | CS-490 |
|---|---|---|
| Tag read distance | 45 ft | 75 ft |
| Mounting height | 10–30 ft | 20–50 ft |
| Tag read period | 8 ms | 8 ms |
| Location accuracy | 1.5–2 ft | 2–3 ft |
| Data and power source | PoE | PoE+ |
08Trusted where failure isn’t an option.
Award-winning RTLS implementation, named best RFID deployment of its year.
BAE Systems and Pratt & Whitney programs run on the same smart-antenna platform.
Deployed through integration programs serving federal government and Fortune 200 logistics.
Fortune 500 returnable-packaging tracking across plants and suppliers.
Selected Omni-Scan over an incumbent D-Series dock-door system for its South Texas distribution hub, and is now expanding it.
Every deployment is engineered, installed, and supported end-to-end by RAMS, antennas to Oracle.
The reads become decisions in Omni-Ware.
Omni-Scan supplies the continuous location signal; Omni-Ware turns it into structured, item-level events, evaluates it through a rules engine with full event history, and orchestrates the result into the WMS, MES, and ERP already in place.
Directional detection, dock validation, and inventory reconciliation are configured against the Omni-Scan read stream. Nothing that runs the operation gets ripped out.
See the full Omni-Ware platform →Don't budget this as capital expenditure.
We own the fleet. You pay a monthly operating expense priced below the payroll it replaces, with zero capital request and zero balance-sheet impact. Payments begin only when the system hits your agreed throughput threshold.
Zero capital request
One monthly fee covers equipment, maintenance, parts, service and software
Fee engineered below the displaced payroll, so savings start month one
A monthly figure for your operation, built from your project data and technical review.
Get your monthly figure →No capital request attached
Know where every pallet is, right now.
Request a site survey. One of our engineers will assess your facility and model overhead RFID coverage for your dock and floor.