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Deploying RFID

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After weighing the benefits of RFID, analysing your business case and evaluating your technology options, you have one more step to go before a full rollout: a limited pilot programme. Consider the pilot and its tests as a way to replicate a “real-world” application environment to determine the performance requirements, physical characteristics and limitations of each application considered. If done properly, the pilot process will positively affect the implementation timeline and capital investment necessary to deploy the optimal RFID solution for a given business case.

Typical considerations include:

• Necessary read range for given application
• Number of items to be read within the determined read range
• Write performance requirements
• Noise and substance signal degradation
• Location and affixation of tag for process/application optimisation
• Optimal speed of items through the reading field
• Cost/benefit of tags and readers for a given business case – class & frequency specific
• Mandate compliance and adherence
• Environmental considerations – i.e. humidity, temperature

RFID systems should be tested in a myriad of subtle environmental variations to ensure the best implementation results. Pilot programmes and testing may not discover every obstacle, but they can mitigate the great majority of physical and performance inhibitors prior to full implementation.

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