Various markets can benefit from RAIN RFID, one of them being retail, where end users use the technology to address issues such as limited inventory visibility, inventory overstocks and understocks, poor customer experiences and theft and shrink.
RFID has gained widespread acceptance as an access control and identity management technology with applications in different fields. The technology can be divided into LF, HF and UHF RFID based on the frequency range it operates in. Two years ago, four companies, including Impinj, Intel, Google and Smartrac, founded the RAIN RFID standard that promotes UHF RFID.
“RAIN RFID is based on a single, global standard called UHF Class 1, Gen 2 or ISO/IEC 18000-63. This standard provides guidelines about how RAIN RFID systems work, what frequencies they operate at, how data is transferred, and how communication works between the reader and the tag. The standard also helps ensure that RAIN RFID products are interoperable,...
Product Adopted:Retail