Industry-Wide Plan for Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

“Beyond improvements against counterfeiting, pharmaceutical manufacturers and retailers have different end uses in mind for tag data,” said Rick Raber, chief technologist for lead RFID integrator Northern Apex. “The approach outlined in TI’s paper supports both those who want applications with data accessed completely from a database, and others who may want data from the tag directly for local applications, like a smart shelf for automatic inventory.”