RFID Changes Course

Successes at UHF

UHF is making inroads elsewhere. The presentation by the leading UHF chip company Impinj particularly impressed the audience. The IATA UHF standard for baggage tagging has resulted in satisfactory RFID implementations in many airports, said Andrew Price of IATA, so much so that IATA will now mandate its use by leading players in the industry, powering this to a two billion tags a year market.