What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of RFID

This question is often posed by our customers when they are evaluating RFID as a technology. If they are currently using barcode to track their assets, the question of what the advantages of RFID are and how RFID is different from barcode arises. RFID, as an auto-ID technology, has been around for more than 40 years, in various flavors. Today, the most prevalent RFID technology is RAIN RFID, which functions in the UHF (Ultra High Frequency) band. An RFID system broadly consists of: These components have all improved through several revisions over the past 15 years or so and therefore, tracking with RFID offers more advantages today, than at its
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