New Attitudes to UHF Revealed in Tokyo and Cambridge UK

Uncertain future

The use of UHF is uncertain for the future. It will gradually be used on more and more airline baggage under the IATA standard with problems of water and metal reduced by faraday cages and tunnel readers. Following great success in the dry and relatively non-metallic environments of Selexys bookshops in the Netherlands and Marks and Spencer apparel stores in the UK, it may or may not succeed in the wet, metallic environment of pallets, cases and items in food retailing. Metro Germany and Wal-Mart USA certainly think they have cracked the problems at pallet and case level and they are fixed on UHF but many suppliers point to poor read rates.