Solutions for Inbound & Outbound Logistics

Every reader Identium supplies ships with an SDK, a demonstration application and source code, so your team or your ERP vendor codes against a working example instead of starting cold. Three routes are common. The simplest is keyboard-wedge entry: the CX Flow Pro utility that ships with the CX1500N handheld pushes each read into whichever field your existing application has focused, so a barcode-era receiving screen often needs little or no rework. Second, push reads to your own server: CX Flow Pro has a real-time webhook, and the IHZ4 fixed reader offers a Direct Post API. Third, code against the reader itself, using the Java, .NET and C++ APIs the IHZ4 exposes; its RS-232, RS-485, Ethernet and USB interfaces, Wiegand output for an existing access panel and relay contacts for a barrier or light stack let it act without a PC in the loop. The mapping work is scoped against your own receipt-to-dispatch flow.

Four things, in rough order of impact. First, tag quantity, which follows from the tagging level: tagging pallets, bins and rack locations means a few thousand reusable tags, while tagging every carton or polybag means a consumable label on each one, forever. Second, tag construction. An adhesive UHF label is the cheapest per piece; a rugged ABS, PC or nylon hard tag, an on-metal build, or an ultrasonically welded or epoxy-potted housing for wash-down areas costs more and typically survives far more handling cycles. Customisation adds process steps: laser marking, engraving, artwork, serial numbering, pre-encoding. Third, read points, where the cost is as much antennas, cabling, mounting and installation labour as the reader, although one four-port reader can often cover a whole portal. Fourth, how many handhelds the shift pattern needs. Identium quotes against a written specification rather than a list price, so send us the tagging level, the surfaces involved and the annual volume.

As of 2026, low-power RFID use of the 865-868 MHz band in India is delicensed under the 2021 WPC short-range-device rules, which superseded the 2005 rules that covered only 865-867 MHz, and that is why warehouse UHF here is specified on that band. Delicensed is generally taken to mean an end user needs no individual site licence for readers running inside their own premises, but treat that as a starting point rather than legal advice: check the current notification, and the transmit-power and antenna-gain limits attached to it, with WPC before you freeze a specification or an import plan. The point that bites more often in procurement is the equipment. Ask any supplier to confirm in writing that the reader and antennas are WPC-approved for India and shipped configured for the 865-868 MHz band, not left on the US/FCC default of 902-928 MHz or another region's setting. Identium is BIS certified, and the UHF readers and antennas we supply are WPC-approved for the Indian band.

There is no formula: it falls out of the doorway and the traffic. A wide forklift door with pallets moving both ways commonly ends up with two to four antennas, as a pair on each side or one pair plus an overhead, and all of them can land on a single four-port fixed reader such as the IHZ4. Its RF output is adjustable from 0 to 33 dBm in 1 dBm steps, so you can trim power to the lane rather than run flat out and read stock in the next bay. Wire a photo-eye or floor loop into the reader's inputs and drive a light stack or barrier from its relay outputs, so a read posts only when something actually crossed. A narrow personnel or trolley doorway is usually better served by a packaged two-panel portal such as the HLR200, which has In/Out direction sensing built in. Prove the layout on one door with your own loaded pallets.

Yes, and on many Indian sites that is the practical route, because inbound stock from suppliers is rarely tagged on day one. The CX1500N is an Android 12 mobile computer with an integrated 1D/2D/QR scan engine alongside its UHF module, so one device reads a supplier's printed barcode at goods receipt and then your own passive UHF EPC Gen2 (ISO/IEC 18000-63) tags on the pallet or the rack location, inside a single application. Its 11,550 mAh battery is rated for all-day endurance and is hot-swappable, so a count need not stop for charging, and the IP67 build suits a dock. An optional 13.56 MHz module reads MIFARE-type ISO 14443 cards for operator login: that is a separate HF standard, and the terms EPC Gen2 and RAIN RFID do not apply to it. Read distance with either technology is typical, not guaranteed, so pilot with your own goods before you standardise.