New Attitudes to UHF Revealed in Tokyo and Cambridge UK

At the IDTechEx conferences Printed Electronics in Asia 11-12 September and RFID Europe in Cambridge UK 18-19 September it was clear that attitudes to UHF RFID are changing. The East Asians were intrigued by the rush to UHF in the West and were keen to follow when their radio regulations permitted these frequencies at realistic power levels. That has now happened and UHF RFID is successfully used on such things as mail bags in China and airport baggage. There has been a honeymoon period when UHF was being tested for a very wide variety of applications in the East and was spoken of a solution for most challenges.