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RFID Supply Chain Management

Logistics · UHF RFID · Sensors

Shipment Visibility, End to End.

Identium’s RFID Logistics & Supply Chain platform tracks cartons and pallets from origin hub to destination with UHF gate reads at every transit point. Condition-monitoring sensor tags log temperature and shock — essential for cold-chain pharma and high-value goods.

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Identium’s RFID Logistics & Supply Chain platform tracks cartons and pallets from origin hub to destination with UHF gate reads at every transit point. Here are the capabilities you get with Identium.

Carton & Pallet Tracking

UHF labels on every carton — gate-read at every hub transition.

Cold-chain Monitoring

Battery-free sensor tags log temperature every 5 minutes — alerts on excursion.

Shock Detection

Impact-detecting tags prove damage happened in transit, not at destination.

Dock-door Automation

Every truck load-in and load-out verified against the ASN — no lost cartons.

Hub-to-hub Timeline

Live timeline per shipment: “picked up at Delhi hub 9:40, Gurgaon hub 14:20…”

Proof of Delivery

Final-mile handheld reads provide digital POD with time, location, and signature.

SLA Analytics

On-time performance, hub dwell times, exception rates by lane, driver, and customer.

TMS & ERP

Real-time data into Transport Management Systems and shipper ERPs.

Customs Ready

Tag-level manifests speed up customs clearance for international lanes.

Three-Layer RFID Architecture

A clean flow from tagging to real-time dashboards — built for operational scale.

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Tag at origin

UHF labels applied at the shipper dock or pre-printed on outer cartons.

2

Scan at every hub

Gate readers at DCs, hubs, and dock doors log every transit event.

3

POD + analytics

Digital POD at the door; end-to-end visibility for shippers and consignees.

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UHF RFID Gate Reader

UHF RFID Gate Reader

Fixed UHF gate reader for automated entry/exit tracking at warehouse doors and checkpoints.

 RFID Handheld Reader

RFID Handheld Reader

Portable UHF scanners with Wi-Fi/BT connectivity for on-the-go asset verification and mobile audits.

 UHF RFID Label (H10)

UHF RFID Label (H10)

High-performance UHF label for non-metallic items — cartons, books, plastic cases, inventory labelling.

 UHF RFID Antenna

UHF RFID Antenna

Circular-polarised 9dBi/12dBi UHF antennas — extend reader range and multi-port coverage.

Deployed Across These Industries

Identium is trusted by organisations in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, logistics, events, and the public sector.

Parcel Carriers · 3PL Logistics · Cold Chain · Air Cargo · Ocean Freight · Rail Freight · Pharma Distribution · Sample Logistics

Visibility across every hub.

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Specifying the Hardware for an RFID Supply Chain Management System

Supply chain work sits firmly in passive UHF. In India that means the 865–868 MHz band, which the WPC delicensed for RFID in its 2021 short-range-device rules — Identium is BIS certified, and the UHF readers and antennas we supply are WPC-approved for India’s licence-exempt UHF RFID band. Check the current WPC and BIS notifications before you import or commission anything, since the allocation and the approval lists are theirs to change. Passive UHF is the layer that can read a stacked pallet or a whole dock-door pass without line of sight and without presenting items one at a time, and because it follows EPC Gen2 (ISO/IEC 18000-63, marketed as RAIN RFID), a carton encoded at a supplier’s dispatch desk stays readable on any compliant reader on the same regional band at the receiving hub. HF 13.56 MHz and NFC are the wrong layer for this job — they work over centimetres at a fixed read point, not across a portal while a loaded pallet rolls through. Worth being precise about the vocabulary: EPC Gen2, ISO/IEC 18000-63 and RAIN RFID are passive-UHF terms only, and do not describe HF, NFC or LF products.

What usually decides whether a lane works is not the reader but what is inside the packaging. Liquids absorb UHF energy and metal reflects it, so the tag has to be matched to the load:

Shipment unitSurfaceTag to specifyRead point
Fibreboard carton, dry goodsPaper, plasticUHF paper or PET label, printed and encoded in one passDock portal, handheld at delivery
Plastic pallet, crate or binNon-metallicRigid ABS/PC hard tag, riveted or bondedGate and dock portals
Steel cage, roll cage, stillageMetalOn-metal (anti-metal) tag — expect noticeably shorter rangeClose-range dock read
Liquid-filled or foil-lined cartonsRF-hostileSpaced on-metal construction, tag on the carton edgeSlow-pass portal

Treat every published range figure as typical rather than guaranteed. A fixed multi-port reader with circular-polarised antennas over a dock door will usually out-read a handheld, but aisle geometry, forklift speed, pallet density and the contents of the cartons all move the result, and on-metal or small-footprint tags read shorter again. Prove the read rate on your worst case first — a steel cage, or a liquid-filled carton buried mid-pallet — because that load is what sets the tag specification for everything else.

Two decisions decide whether the reads become usable data. First, encode a unique serial per carton in EPC memory instead of a shared SKU value: a shared code lets you count stock, but not reconcile a read against a specific ASN line, and not tell a re-scan of one carton from the arrival of a second. Second, treat the read stream as something that needs filtering before anything downstream sees it — a portal sees the same tag many times in a single pass, so the software has to collapse those into one event and infer direction of travel from the antenna sequence. Every reader Identium supplies ships with an SDK, demo app and source code, so that logic can be written against your own stack rather than bolted on afterwards. Custom tags are typically a 5–10 day turnaround, and units are tested in-house before dispatch.

Frequently asked questions

Should we tag individual items, cartons or pallets in an RFID supply chain system?

Start at the carton, and add pallet-level tags only where pallets are built and broken as whole units. The outer carton is usually the right unit to tag because it is what physically moves, what passes a dock portal and what appears as a line on the ASN. Item-level tagging multiplies the tag spend by whatever is inside each carton, and it is normally driven by a retailer's tagging mandate rather than by your own logistics. Where a pallet tag does earn its place, associate the carton serials to the pallet serial at build time so one pallet read returns the full contents, then break that association when the pallet is decanted. Getting that hierarchy wrong is a common reason a system reads tags accurately and still reports the wrong stock figure.

Our overseas supplier tags cartons at source. Will those tags read on readers in India?

Usually, but test it before the first shipment. The chip is not country-locked: a passive UHF inlay carrying an EPC Gen2 chip (ISO/IEC 18000-63, marketed as RAIN RFID) can be read by any compliant UHF reader. What varies is the inlay's antenna tuning — most are sold with wide or global tuning, but one optimised for the higher North American 902-928 MHz band can read noticeably shorter at India's frequencies, and range is environment-dependent in any case. The reader is the harder constraint: as of 2026, UHF RFID equipment in India is expected to operate in the 865-868 MHz allocation the WPC treats as delicensed, so confirm current WPC notifications rather than importing a reader configured for another region. Identium's UHF readers and antennas are WPC-approved for India's licence-exempt UHF RFID band. Ask your supplier which inlay they use, and read a sample carton on your own reader.

What drives the cost of an RFID supply chain management system?

Four things, in rough order of weight: the recurring tag spend, the number of read points, the tag construction and the integration work. Tags are a consumable, so the arithmetic differs sharply between a one-way paper or PET carton label you keep buying and a rigid or on-metal tag that costs more per piece but is reused across many trips in a returnable pool. Each read point then needs a reader, antennas, mounting and cabling, and one multi-port fixed reader covering a whole portal often works out cheaper per lane than stacking single-port units. Integration is the line people under-budget: collapsing a portal's repeated reads into single directional events, then matching them to ASN lines. Identium quotes against a written specification covering shipment unit, surface, read points and annual volumes rather than a list price, because those variables move the figure more than the hardware choice does.

Who prints and encodes the carton labels, and can we do it at our own dispatch dock?

Either route works. You can buy labels pre-printed and pre-encoded to your serialisation scheme, or print and encode on demand at the dispatch dock with an RFID label printer — the usual choice for a busy despatch operation, since the human-readable text, the barcode and the EPC all get committed to one label before it leaves the printer. If you print in-house, insist on encode-and-verify behaviour: the printer writes the EPC, reads it back and voids the label if the inlay has failed, so a dead inlay is caught at your own dock instead of surfacing as a missing carton at the receiving hub. Keep a small buffer of pre-encoded labels for printer downtime. Identium supplies RFID printers alongside the labels, and can print, encode and serial-number them to your scheme where in-house printing is not practical.

Can passive UHF tags monitor temperature in transit, or do we need something powered?

It depends on whether you need spot checks or an unbroken record. A passive UHF sensor tag has no battery and no clock of its own: it reports a reading only at the moment a reader interrogates it, which is sufficient if every hub and dock door has a read point and you just need the temperature captured at each handover. If you have to demonstrate that the load never left its permitted temperature range through an overnight road leg with no reader anywhere near it, that needs a powered device — typically a battery-assisted tag or a BLE sensor that logs on its own clock and uploads when it next comes within range of a gateway or phone. Settle which of the two your customer or your own quality system actually requires before specifying anything, because the per-shipment cost of the two routes is very different.

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