RFID and UHF: A Prescription for RFID Success in the Pharmaceutical Industry

This white paper represents a collaborative effort by ADT/Tyco Fire & Security, Alien, Impinj, Intel, Symbol and Xterprise for the purposes of providing educational information on UHF RFID technology to the market, and to examine the suitability of UHF RFID for item level applications in the pharmaceutical industry. As manufacturers and developers of leading UHF RFID products and solutions, these companies determined through interactions with customers — and at the suggestion of customers — that there was a market need for accurate information on the UHF Generation 2 protocol, from a technical and strategic aspect. The information contained in this paper represents collective knowledge and data from all six companies.