RFID Case Studies
How organisations across India put Identium RFID to work.
Three deployments, in three sectors that share almost nothing operationally — a rail network, a vehicle assembly line, and a maternity ward. What they do share is the part of an RFID project that actually decides whether it works: a read point that has to cope with the physics of its own environment. Steel reflects. Water absorbs. A carrier that does not stop gives you one pass. Each study below sets out the constraint that dominated the design, and what it forced.
A word on what you will not find here. We do not publish percentage improvements, payback periods or hard read-rate figures for individual client deployments. Those numbers depend on a customer's own baseline, and quoting them without that baseline makes them marketing rather than evidence. What is published is the engineering: which tag family, which frequency, where the antennas went, and what typically goes wrong. If you want the commercial side, our RFID ROI and payback guide shows how to build the case from your own figures instead of ours.
The three deployments compared
| Deployment | Sector | What is tagged | Constraint that dominated | Frequency it forced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Railways | Rail infrastructure | Components, stores inventory and fixed infrastructure assets | Steel everywhere, and assets that live outdoors | Passive UHF, with HF and LF where a deliberate close read was wanted |
| Suzuki, HCL | Manufacturing & automotive | Work in progress, line-side carriers, tools and plant assets | Reading a moving carrier at a line-side point without stopping it | Passive UHF on on-metal tags |
| Govt of Tamil Nadu | Healthcare | Paired mother and infant bands | A small band against tissue, and telling direction from presence | Passive UHF at the opening, HF 13.56 MHz for the cot-side check |
All three run on passive UHF in India's licence-exempt 865–868 MHz band, set by G.S.R. 853(E) of 10 December 2021 — see RFID frequencies in India for the channel plan and power limits. Two of the three also use HF 13.56 MHz, for the cases where a deliberate one-at-a-time read is wanted rather than a bulk one.
Read the studies
Govt of Tamil Nadu: RFID Infant Monitoring
How Identium's RFID infant monitoring system supports a Government of Tamil Nadu deployment — paired mother-baby bands, …
Manufacturing & Automotive: RFID Asset & WIP Tracking
How Identium deploys UHF RFID for manufacturing and automotive clients — WIP, asset and tool tracking with rugged on-met…
Indian Railways: RFID Asset & Infrastructure Tracking
How Identium deployed UHF RFID asset and infrastructure tracking for Indian Railways — rugged tags, fixed and handheld r…
What to take from them if you are scoping your own project
The pattern across all three is that the hard decisions are made before anything is ordered. Which surface the tag sits on, how far it has to read, whether presence is enough or you need direction, and what the read point has to survive — those settle the tag family, the antenna and the reader between them. Our guide to scoping a project around read range and environment works through that sequence, and the ten mistakes we see most often is largely a list of those decisions taken too late.
We are a manufacturer rather than a reseller, so a pilot can be run on your actual surface before you commit to volume: Identium is BIS certified, our UHF readers and antennas are WPC-approved for India's licence-exempt UHF RFID band, and custom tags typically turn around in 5–10 days from our New Delhi factory. We do not hold CE, FCC, RoHS, REACH or ISO 9001 certification and do not claim them — if your market requires those marks, treat it as a real gap and ask every supplier the same question.
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