Crucial: 4 RFID Challenges You Can’t Afford to Ignore

RFID technology was invented in the late 1940s during World War II. The British used the RFID radar system, associated with radio transponders, to discriminate between their and German aircraft.

However, exploitation of the RFID process at such a large platform didn’t push the commercial industries to adopt this technology. This is mainly due to the high cost of RFID technology as compared to Barcode.

Among all the commercial sectors, Wal-Mart, a multinational retail company, adopted RFID technology in the year 2004 by selecting a UHF frequency band to improve the performance of their inventories, asset management and tracking operations.

Though Wal-Mart has revolutionized supply chain management programs through RFID tags and labelling systems, other commercial industries still consider RFID technology a pricey option.

Due to high cost, retailers are not adopting this approach. Besides, RFID technology also contains several challenges and limitations which must be overcome before the industrial deployment of RFID tags.

In this blog, I have gathered the challenges and limitations of RFID technology to inform the reader what they might face during the implementation of the RFID transmission process.