Evaluation of RFID Performance for a Pharmaceutical Distribution Chain: HF vs. UHF

Author

Uysal, Dilek Dagdelen ; Emond, Jean-Pierre ; Engels, Daniel W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Food Sci. & Human Nutrition, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

fYear

2008

fDate

16-17 April 2008

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

34

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate and compare the use of passive HF and UHF RFID systems for the item level identification of pharmaceutical products throughout their supply chains. We compare the overall identification performances of both types of RFID systems on individual products and on totes filled with tagged products. Scenarios representative of all aspects of the pharmaceutical distribution chain from the manufacturer to the retailer are considered. We conclude that the tested passive UHF RFID system provides significantly superior identification performance than do passive HF RFID systems.

Keywords

pharmaceutical technology; radiofrequency identification; supply chains; UHF RFID systems; item level identification; passive HF RFID systems; pharmaceutical distribution chain; product tagging; supply chains; Frequency; Hafnium; Large-scale systems; Packaging; Passive RFID tags; Pharmaceutical technology; Radiofrequency identification; Supply chains; UHF antennas; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RFID, 2008 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1711-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1712-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFID.2008.4519382

Filename

4519382