Customer Driven Industry requirements

by | Jul 5, 2023 | Business Blog | 0 comments

RFID, NFC and Blockchain are big buzz words in retail spaces as everyone is trying to combat workforce shortages with better technology to help ease the burden of fewer hands to do the work.  What we have seen is that the burden of providing the tagging, encoding and holding up the standards is put on the supplier partners.  In order to meet the requirements of your largest customers like Walmart, Target and CVS pharmacies you don’t only need software that can produce RFID tags, you need software that will integrate with your current systems.  
RFID, NFC and Blockchain are big buzz words in retail spaces as everyone is trying to combat workforce shortages with better technology to help ease the burden of fewer hands to do the work.  What we have seen is that the burden of providing the tagging, encoding and holding up the standards is put on the supplier partners.  In order to meet the requirements of your largest customers like Walmart, Target and CVS pharmacies you don’t only need software that can produce RFID tags, you need software that will integrate with your current systems.  

RFID tags

Programmable UHF2 and HF3 tags to affix to products, active or passive, hard or soft.

Readers and Antennae

Long and short-range readers and antennae to provide power and range

Supporting Software

Supporting services or software to encode tags and process RFID data for end use (eg, associate apps)

Testing and certification

Tests and certifies tag inlays for various retail uses/materials for retailer and supplier assurance

When Walmart came out with their RFID tag mandates our customers had no experience with printing this type of tag and tracking EPCs.  The GS1 standard was completely foreign to them and who knew anything about talking to Auburn University to test your ARC for compliance.  It was a complete garble of terminology, requirements, and confusion that needed to be sorted out and built into a simple solution for our customers.