Special Report on Pharma & HealthcareReaching beyond the counterfeiterby Victor Vega, Alien Technology
Many companies in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry are now looking at RFID to streamline operations, meet regulatory requirements and prevent the introduction of counterfeit product into the supply chain to protect both consumer safety and company profitability |
In order to implement RFID systems, enterprises must make a critical decision: which protocol/frequency band should be implemented — High Frequency (HF) or Ultra High Frequency (UHF)? HF protocols have been in existence longer than UHF — the UHF Gen 2 standard was ratified on December 16, 2004. But the UHF next generation RFID standard was developed to deliver the features and functionality missing from the prior generation of standards as defined by key customers and applications — and specifically to provide the enterprise class functionality required to support the ubiquitous adoption of RFID. 
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