Does Impinj see multiple types of RFID technology working side by side, for example UHF and high frequency?
Well, Impinj believes that in the vast majority and even perhaps in all applications the UHF Gen 2 standard can meet the market needs. Gen 2 can be used across the supply chain from case and pallet tagging to item level tagging. You just need to change antenna technologies to meet various needs. For example, in the warehouse you can use far-field antennas to obtain the range that you need and in the stores you can use near-field antennas that can be built into shelves, for example, to enable automatic inventory taking. So the tags themselves will use either far-field antennas or near-field antennas, or even a combination of both, depending on what is tagged and what you’re trying to achieve in a use case. So the important point is that a single standard can be the backbone of the whole supply chain and in that sense we think that UHF Gen 2 is indeed sufficient. It can achieve a single worldwide infrastructure and really meet all the applications identified both in supply chain and item
