How it works

Tag it, drive it, know it

What the tags do, what the hardware does, and how a scan ends up accurate to the centimeter — without anyone on your crew becoming a hardware technician.

How it works

Three steps, start to finish.

1

Tag it

Design your label in the browser and print RFID labels yourself, on your own printer. Every tag carries a unique identity from the moment it goes on the plant.

2

Walk or drive it

Follow the guided route on the tablet. Coverage fills in live as you move, so you can see what is done and what is left without keeping a map in your head.

3

Know it

Counts you can trust, broken out by location and by product, with the time and place of every read behind them. Inventory becomes something you check, not something you argue about.

Not your granddad’s RFID tags anymore…

A bit of a joke — but the point is real. The same tag does several different jobs, so you decide how it gets used instead of buying a different tag for every part of the operation.

RFID inventory tag One tag per inventory item or per tray, used to query availability live. Wave the reader and the count — and what is actually sellable — comes back on the spot.
RFID tree row tag Track trees through every stage of production. Add information to the tag as the tree changes, or write it to a cloud record linked to that tag, so the history follows the tree instead of living in someone’s memory.
RFID crop card Use the tag as a crop card: print four or more per work order being planted. The tag captures the production information, the starting quantity and the projected ready date, and you manage it over time — updating available quantity and ready dates as the crop moves.
Field grown tree rows tracked with RFID tags
Tree rows, tracked tag by tag. Click to enlarge.

100% managed hardware support

You do not have to get involved in learning and supporting hardware. Every tablet and every RFID reader is supported live by your ScanTap team, and our swap-out program keeps you running 24/365 — if a unit fails, a working one is on its way before you have finished describing the problem.

CSL CS463 fixed RFID reader
The CS463 reader we deploy and support.
ScanTap RFID antenna
Our RFID antenna, mounted on the cart or the building.
The ScanTap app on a tablet counting RFID tags as they are read
The tablet counting tags as you drive.

The tablet boots into ScanTap, not into Android

Crew tablets ship with our own Field Home launcher already on them. One full-width ScanTap tile, icons big enough to hit with a work glove, and only the handful of apps the job actually needs — camera, maps, phone, settings. There is nothing to hunt for, nothing to uninstall and nowhere to wander off to.

It is Grotap branded, not client branded, and it is the same on every tablet you run — so a person who learns one tablet has learned all of them.

The ScanTap Field Home launcher on an 11-inch crew tablet
Field Home on an 11-inch tablet. Click to enlarge.

Devices managed entirely by AI and Grotap Support

Every tablet and every reader you run shows up in My Devices — online or offline, battery, firmware, last scan, last sync. You can see all of it, but you are not the one who has to act on it: AI watches the fleet and the Grotap Support team works the problem, usually before anyone on your crew notices there was one.

The ScanTap My Devices screen showing managed tablets and readers
My Devices — your fleet, managed for you. Click to enlarge.

Mapping and precise inventory locations included

Positioning is part of the system, not a separate project you have to scope, buy and configure. We run live RTK over the internet, so a scan lands inside a centimeter while the crew is still driving. Every session also records the raw observations in RINEX format, so a position can be reprocessed afterwards and a bad correction window never costs you the day’s work. And every system supports uploading corrections from a local base — your own station, or whatever local correction service you already pay for.

We build the kits ourselves, from raw parts, so they survive a farm:

IP67 reader enclosure
IP67 reader enclosure
13.78 × 9.84 × 5.90 in. The box the reader lives in.
Power Cell enclosure
Power Cell enclosure
Hinged IP67, 410 × 310 × 180 mm, with mounting plate and brackets.
SP21 aviation connector
SP21 aviation connector
4-pin, IP68, panel mount. Port 1 and the Power Cell end of the cable.
RP-SMA bulkhead jumper
RP-SMA bulkhead jumper
RG316, 12 in. Antenna ports 2 through 5, bulkhead end in the wall.
IP68 cable glands
IP68 cable glands
½ in and ⅜ in NPT. Every penetration through the Power Cell.
60 W USB-C PD module
60 W USB-C PD module
DC to USB-C PD 3.0 / QC4, on the back plate by the lid bulkhead.
12 AWG tinned marine wire
12 AWG tinned marine wire
Interconnect and the heavy runs. Tinned, because it lives outdoors.
Brass and nylon standoffs
Brass and nylon standoffs
M3 kit; nylon pieces used inside. M4 for reader flanges is separate.

See it on your own stock

Tell us what you grow, how you count it today, and what goes wrong when you do. We will walk you through what ScanTap would look like in your operation.