Industry Comes Together on EPC UHF Specification

RFID vendors have come to a consensus on the Gen 2 UHF specification standard for the electronic product code. Comments Bill Allen, marketing communications manager at Texas Instruments TI-RFid Systems division, ‘That's big news for thousands of companies around the world whether they be retailers, distributors, manufacturers, or RFID suppliers. It happened faster than some doubters believed, and not fast enough for many retailers that are anxiously waiting to adopt RFID.’

Allen said this opens up opportunities to find and exploit all the strengths of UHF technology, while also learning about its weaknesses. Performance and reliability will follow. ‘We at Texas Instruments applaud and congratulate the RFID community, the users, and EPCglobal for the hard work, long hours, and willingness of many companies to compromise. There are a lot of very smart people in this community with many years of experience in RFID and other identification technologies that worked on the Gen 2 spec. We thank them and salute their efforts.’