The RFID Lab at the University of Parma’s Department of Industrial Engineering in Italy will begin testing the performance of various makes and models of EPC Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID hardware for use by European apparel retailers and manufacturers. The program, known as “RFID 4 fashion certified,” is intended to determine how well the hardware performs in real-life use cases.
Once testing of a specific piece of RFID equipment is complete, the laboratory will present the maker of that equipment with a certificate indicating its product has undergone testing for fashion applications. Then, if the technology vendor authorizes the lab to do so, the results will be made available to businesses that manufacture, transport or sell fashion in Europe, so that they can determine how well the technology will perform in their particular applications.
The University of Arkansas’ RFID Research Center has also been testing RFID hardware performance, at its Arkansas Radio Compliance Center and has been providing the results to end users. The testing conducted at the Arkansas lab includes UHF RFID inlays operating somewhere in the range 800 to 1,000 MHz while the UHF RFID spectrum in Europe is centered on 865 MHz.Learn more from RFID Journal.
University's RFID Lab Launches Test Program for Apparel
