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NFC tags

How long does it take your lab to find one tube?

Faded handwriting and a spreadsheet on somebody’s laptop do not help at the freezer door. SLIM tags put the record on the vial: tap it with a phone and you see what it is, where it belongs and what it was used in.

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The problem

A perfect inventory is no use if it cannot reach the bench.

The record lives on a computer across the room, while somebody stands at an open minus-eighty reading a smudged label written by a postdoc who left two years ago.

Unreadable labels

Handwriting smudges, frosts over and uses abbreviations only its author understood.

Freezer-door searches

Minutes with the door open, looking for a box that moved.

Record here, sample there

The inventory is on a laptop; the sample is in the freezer; nothing connects them.

Try it yourself

Tap a tube.

Click any tube in the freezer box to scan its tag, the way a phone does at the freezer door.

A live demo running in your browser. Nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere.

How SLIM handles it

Tap the vial. The record opens.

Solves: unreadable labels and freezer-door searches

The record travels with the sample

Every tag carries an NFC chip and a printed barcode that open the sample’s record in SLIM: what it is, where it should be, who made it and every entry it was used in.

  • NFC and barcode on the same tag
  • Cryo-rated, made to survive a freezer
  • Any modern phone reads it, no app needed
Scanned · SPC-0141
pGG-A-35S
SPC-0141
WarehouseGreen Gate cloning
Position-20 °C · Box 3
Concentration50 ng/µL
OwnerJiří Hermann
Used in4 entries

What changes for your lab

  • Identify any tagged sample without leaving the freezer
  • Labels that stay readable at minus eighty
  • 500 tags a year included with every Lab plan
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The details

What you get
500 printed tags a year with any Lab subscription, shipped to you. Additional tags are ordered from us at cost.
What is on them
The specimen identifier as a barcode, an NFC chip carrying the record link, and whatever short label you choose to print.
Reading one
Any modern phone reads the NFC tag with no app installed. The barcode works with a standard scanner or the phone camera.
If a tag is lost
Reprint it from the specimen. The identifier is a property of the record, not of the sticker.

Keep exploring

It gets better when it is all connected.

Every part of SLIM links to the others. Here is what connects to NFC tags.

InventoryA tap opens the item’s full recordIs it in the freezer, or do we order it again?See how Inventory solves itLab notebookSee every entry a sample was used inSix months later, can anyone reproduce what you did?See how the notebook solves it
The whole lab, connectedSee every module working together on your own data.30 minutes. Send a spreadsheet first and we build your lab before the call.Book a 30-min demoor explore the interactive diagram

See your own lab in SLIM, in 30 minutes.

Send us a spreadsheet before the call. We build your inventory from it, show you around it live, and you keep it whether you continue or not.

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