What this tag is and where it fits
The Siemens 6GT2810-2AG84-0AX1 is a SIMATIC RF682L SmartLabel — a UHF RFID tag built on a Nomex paper substrate, sized 156 x 40 x 0.4 mm and beige in color. It operates across the full 860 to 960 MHz UHF band and uses an NXP UCODE 7xm-2k transponder chip with EPCglobal Class 1 Gen 2 / ISO 18000-63 protocol. The tag is IP67 rated, meaning the entire assembly — including the antenna and chip — withstands dust ingress and temporary immersion, so it survives washdown environments in automotive paint shops or industrial laundries.
What the ratings mean for your application
The operating temperature range outside the read/write area spans -40 to +230 °C, with permanent operation up to 85 °C, 6 hours at 200 °C, 1 hour at 220 °C, and short-term peaks to 230 °C. This makes the tag suitable for tracking assets through paint curing ovens or powder-coating lines where standard plastic tags would fail. During read/write access the tag works from -25 to +85 °C, which covers most production-floor environments. The Nomex paper substrate is silicon-free and printable via thermal transfer — critical for paint-shop applications where silicone contamination causes adhesion failure in downstream coating processes. Memory is organized as 96-bit (12-byte) EPC memory expandable to 448-bit (56-byte), plus 2048-bit (256-byte) user memory and 96-bit (12-byte) TID memory. The tag supports lock, unlock, kill, write protection, and password protection on the memory. Maximum transfer rate is 320 kbit/s, and the read range reaches up to 6 m depending on the reader — though the system manual notes overrange is possible and range is reader-dependent. The tag is multitag-capable, so multiple tags can be read in the field simultaneously. It has no backup battery — it's a passive UHF tag powered entirely by the reader's interrogation signal.
Deployment and mounting
The tag can be fastened by gluing or screwing — the 0.4 mm thickness and paper substrate mean it conforms to curved surfaces but is not designed for repeated flexing; torsion and bending stress are only conditionally permissible. It's intended for the SIMATIC RF600 system and is suitable for paint-shop customer versions. The 156 x 40 mm footprint is large enough for custom printing of barcodes or human-readable labels via thermal transfer, which can be applied before or after the tag is mounted.