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title: What is the active distance between the tag and the R/W head?
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# What is the active distance between the tag and the R/W head?

## The distance for reading and writing

Balluff can provide RFID solutions suitable for various processes. During the use and installation of RFID coding block, the RFID code block must be installed within the sensing range of the read-write head before it can be read and written normally.![图片1](https://kb.innovatingautomation.asia/hs-fs/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base/Simplified%20Chinese/Image/RFID1_1/10/%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%871.png?width=342&name=%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%871.png)

The area that can be sensed is called the free zone.  
Generally, the farther the read-write distance is, the smaller the free area of the allowable deviation of the code block is.

When the same read-write head corresponds to different code blocks, different free area size will lead to different read-write distances.

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