Standards: Are They Really Standard?

Of course there are battery-powered active tag systems (most commonly operating in 303, 418, and 433 MHz), as well as 2.4 GHz that we refer to as Wi-Fi (see chart on p. 15). But, in terms of the pharmaceutical supply chain and for the sake of clarity within life sciences applications addressing supply chain asset tracking, tracing and authentication, as well as real or near real-time inventory management, we are focusing on passive RFID technology.