RFID is Poised for Change

Standards needed

Sadly there is no room for two tags on these tiny pots and blisterpacks of drugs. The pharmaceutical legislators need to agree standards for the frequency, signalling protocol and secure database and they are not doing so. They say they will let industry decide but there is no eveidence that that will happen. After all, some of the same RFID suppliers are responsible for three incompatible types of anti theft tag (like RFID but with only one bit of data) thirty years on, despite 12 billion being sold every year. Progress on standardisation is zero.