RuBee® · IEEE 1902.1 · Magnetic Wireless
Not Radio. Magnetic.
Reads Through Steel.
Works Underwater.
RuBee (IEEE 1902.1) is a packet-based wireless technology that uses the magnetic spectrum instead of radio. Active tags with a field-proven 5–25 year battery life deliver 100% read accuracy in the high-steel, high-noise, high-security environments where RF and RFID fail.
The Impossible Demo — a tag read through sealed nuclear-grade steel
A RuBee tag read from inside a sealed nuclear steel containment vessel — a live demonstration no radio-frequency technology can perform. Documented in US DOE laboratory reports.
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IEEE 1902.1
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD
Why RuBee®
RuBee is designed for high security, high human safety, high intrinsic safety, and high-noise harsh environments — the Defense and Industrial Internet of Things requirements no other wireless meets.
5–25 Year Battery
Field-proven battery life with a range of 1 to 50 feet, on simple coin-size lithium cells.
Sealed & Waterproof
Tags are sealed to MIL-STD 810 and waterproof to 5,000 feet.
A Computer, Not a Label
Every tag carries a CPU, memory, a clock, and optional sensors with data logging.
Physically Secure
No compromising emanations — no Tempest, target, or eavesdropping risk. The only wireless allowed in DOE secure areas.
HERO ZERO · HERF ZERO
The only wireless technology safe on and near explosives, with a zero Safe Separation Distance.
Human Safe
FDA-classified Class 1, Non-Significant Risk — about one million times below OSHA limits.
Immune to Steel & Noise
Magnetic fields have no multi-path nulls. 100% accuracy where RF is compromised.
Reads Through Anything
Not blocked by steel, liquids, dirt, snow, or people. Volumetric reads, no line-of-sight.
Steel Is Not the Problem.
Steel Is the Antenna.
RuBee tags can be attached to or embedded in any steel product — a jet engine, a guidance system, structural aircraft parts. RuBee turns the steel itself into a high-performance tuned antenna with 100% reliable read accuracy. Tags are read in a volume, not a line of sight, and are intrinsically safe in explosive environments.
Aerospace 4.0 — tags on steel, read through paint booths
See RuBee® Do What RF Can't
Live demonstrations, not simulations. Click any card to watch — sealed steel vessels, underwater reads, factory floors, armories, and secure portals.
Armory 20/20 — Live
Smart racks and tagged weapons: full armory visibility with audit trails. armory2020.com →
DoorGuard — Live Demo
Smart portals detect tagged assets entering or exiting a high-security facility.
Allegro Shot Counting — M4
Weapon-mounted tags count rounds and capture waveform diagnostics.
DoorGuard xP
Ten-minute install; blocks accidental cell phone and sensitive-item entry into secure areas.
Explosive Stores
Store 20/20 with the ATLAS antenna system delivers automated audits, inventory, and high security for explosive stores — where every other wireless is prohibited outright. HERO ZERO and HERF ZERO, zero Safe Separation Distance.
Store 20/20 →The Impossible Demos
A RuBee tag read from inside a sealed nuclear steel containment vessel. A tag on a steel I-beam read underwater — through steel and water at the same time. Both documented in US DOE laboratory reports.
Why this is physically possible →The 20/20 Solution Family
Armory 20/20®
Every weapon accounted for — continuously, automatically. Full sales site.
armory2020.com →
Allegro 20/20
Shot counting and weapon health management on the tag itself.
Explore →
Store 20/20
Automated audits and inventory for high-security and explosive stores.
Explore →
Alert 20/20 DoorGuard
Exit/entry detection and access security at every door and portal.
Explore →
Prognostic Health Management
RuBee® PHM — The Health Tag
The first working PHM system for sealed, sensitive assets: an asset tag that records the whole life of the item, and the software that turns the record into decisions. Six sensors — temperature, humidity, pressure, 3-axis shock to ±200 g, vibration spectrum, motion — on a 15- or 25-year cell, sealed inside the case with the asset. Sensor Envoy reads a whole group through closed containers in one discovery session, flags what needs attention, and writes the reports.
- ✓ Every excursion with start, end and worst value
- ✓ 15 shock traces, 3-axis at 6400 Hz
- ✓ Cumulative vibration PSD by frequency and axis
- ✓ Inventory scans and PHM from the same tag
Selected Milestones
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, former NNSA Administrator and Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security, joins the board of directors.
Richard A. Clarke, former National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism, joins the board of directors.
SmartParts — Procter & Gamble adopts RuBee wireless for change-part tooling, reporting 100% read accuracy in machine trials. Read →
Visible and Lewis Machine & Tool win the €22M Estonian Defense Forces contract — 16,000 weapons with integrated RuBee shot counters. Read →
Sandia National Laboratories declassifies its RF safety report for RuBee use on sensitive electro-explosive devices.
Visible completes the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation contract — Armory 20/20 secures Grand Coulee Dam.
US DoD determines RuBee has a HERO zero Safe Separation Distance on fused ordnance. Read →
Five-year DOE Pantex study concludes RuBee is the only acceptable auto-ID technology for secure, high-explosive environments. Read →