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RFID Warehouse Management System

Warehouse & Logistics · UHF RFID

Warehouses that Run Themselves.

Identium’s RFID Warehouse Management System automates receiving, put-away, picking, and dispatch with UHF gate readers at every dock door and handheld scanners in every aisle — delivering the throughput modern 3PLs and ecommerce fulfilment centres demand.

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24Dock Doors · Live
99.8%Accuracy · Outbound
3xFaster Receiving
↓ 60%Picking Errors
AutoDispatch Verify
Real-timeInventory

Powerful Features

Built for Scale, Precision & Speed

Identium’s RFID Warehouse Management System automates receiving, put-away, picking, and dispatch with UHF gate readers at every dock door and handheld scanners in every aisle — delivering the throughput modern 3PLs and ecommerce fulfilment centres demand. Here are the capabilities you get with Identium.

Automated Receiving

Gate readers verify every carton/pallet against the ASN as it enters — discrepancies flagged in seconds.

Smart Put-Away

System suggests optimal bin based on velocity, volume, and co-pick affinity. RFID confirms placement.

Zero-error Picking

Handheld confirms the right SKU is picked — wrong-pick alerts before it leaves the station.

Dispatch Verification

Gate readers at outbound docks verify every order against the dispatch manifest.

Cross-docking

Direct gate-to-gate routing for goods that don’t need storage — minutes instead of days.

Carton & Pallet Hierarchy

Read the pallet, know every carton. Read the carton, know every SKU. Full hierarchy intact.

WMS / ERP Hooks

Ready integrations with SAP EWM, Oracle WMS, Manhattan, Blue Yonder, and Indian WMS platforms.

Throughput Dashboards

Dock-door utilisation, picking rates, and SLA compliance visible in real-time.

Inventory Security

Full audit trail — every movement of every SKU, with time, user, and zone.

How It Works

Three-Layer RFID Architecture

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

1

Tag cartons & pallets

UHF labels on every carton; pallet tags for bulk. Encoded at supplier, receiving, or kitting.

2

Read at every gate

Dock-door gate readers log inbound, outbound, cross-dock, and inter-zone movements.

3

WMS decides

Real-time reads drive put-away, pick lists, and dispatch verification in your WMS.

Hardware & Tags

Enterprise-grade UHF/HF RFID hardware, sourced from our sister store IndiaRFIDStore.com.

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.

Use Cases

Deployed Across These Industries

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

3PL Warehouses · Ecommerce FCs · Distribution Centres · Retail DCs · Cold Storage · Pharma WH · Port Bonds · Air Cargo

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Specifying an RFID Warehouse System: Frequency, Read Points and Tags

Warehouse stock movement is a passive UHF job. In India that means the 865–868 MHz band, delicensed for RFID by the WPC’s 2021 short-range-device rules — confirm the current WPC notification before you freeze a specification. The air interface there is EPC Gen2, formally ISO/IEC 18000-63 and marketed as RAIN RFID, and it is what lets a reader pick up a whole pallet of cartons in a single pass. HF at 13.56 MHz (NFC, Mifare) and LF at 125/134 kHz are near-field technologies: fine for a staff access card at the gatehouse, no use for bulk reads across a shutter. Neither is EPC Gen2 or RAIN RFID, whatever a spec sheet claims — those terms describe passive UHF only, and seeing them against an HF line item is the fastest way to spot a BoQ that has been copied rather than scoped. Readers and antennas going into an Indian site should be WPC-approved for the Indian band. Identium is BIS certified, manufactures its tags in New Delhi, and supplies UHF readers and antennas that are WPC-approved for India’s licence-exempt UHF RFID band.

Where the hardware sits matters more than the headline spec:

Read pointWhat gets taggedSuitable hardware
Inbound / outbound dock doorCarton labels, pallet tagsFixed gate/portal reader with circular-polarised panel antennas — more than one antenna per opening where you need to infer direction of travel
Aisle counts, put-away checksSame tagsAndroid handheld reader; expect shorter range than a fixed portal
Packing bench, kitting, relabellingBlank UHF labelsRFID label printer, plus a desktop reader to verify the encode
Steel racking, cages, trolleys, drumsLocation and asset IDsOn-metal (anti-metal) hard tags — a flat paper label detunes badly against metal
Returnable plastic pallets and binsPool assetsRugged UHF pallet tags, riveted or cable-tied rather than stuck on

Two constraints catch out most first deployments. Dock doors set close together can cross-read, so shape the zone with higher-gain, narrow-beam antennas aimed downward and trim output power rather than raising it. And foil-lined cartons, shrink-wrapped liquids and dense metal stock all absorb or reflect UHF, so tag the outward face and confirm distances in your own aisle. Typical passive UHF reads up to roughly 10–15 m with a fixed reader and less with a handheld, but that figure moves with every rack, roller and wrapped pallet you put near it.

Every reader we supply ships with an SDK, a demo application and source code. That matters more than it sounds. A dock-door read stream arrives as thousands of repeat reads of the same tag, and it has to be de-duplicated, held long enough to decide the pallet has actually crossed the line, and mapped onto your own document flow before it is worth anything to a WMS. Having the source means that layer belongs to you and can be changed when the process changes, instead of being a fixed connector the warehouse has to work around.

Frequently asked questions

Should we tag every carton, or only the pallet?

Tag at the level where you actually make a decision. Both levels use the same air interface — passive UHF on India's 865–868 MHz allocation, which the WPC keeps licence-exempt for RFID as of 2026, so confirm the notification in force before you freeze a specification — running EPC Gen2, formally ISO/IEC 18000-63. One reader estate therefore reads carton labels and pallet tags without separate hardware, which makes this an operational decision rather than a technical one. If dispatch verification is per order and your pallets are mixed-SKU, cartons need their own tag: a pallet tag cannot tell you a carton is missing. Where pallets leave whole and SKU-homogeneous, one rugged pallet tag plus a parent-child association recorded at pallet build reads more reliably and costs less. Most sites end up with a mix. Settle it before you price anything, because tags are the consumable — the level you tag at sets the running cost, while readers are bought once.

What does an RFID warehouse management system cost in India, and what drives the price?

It is quoted against a written specification, because two warehouses of the same floor area can need very different systems. Four things move the number: how many read points you need and how many antennas each opening takes; tag volume and format, since a carton label and a rugged on-metal pallet tag are not close in unit cost; whether you want label printers and a desktop reader so you can print, encode and verify in-house; and the integration effort into your existing WMS. Tags are the only item you keep buying, so at real throughput the recurring tag spend can overtake the one-time hardware cost over the life of the installation — price the consumable first. Send doorway widths, annual tag quantity and the surfaces being tagged, and you get a costed specification written against your own site rather than a list price.

Does RFID replace barcode scanning in the warehouse, or do we run both?

Plan to run both. RFID earns its place where you need bulk reads with no line of sight — a whole pallet through a dock door, an aisle count without touching stock. Barcodes stay useful for single-item exception handling, for goods that arrive already barcoded from a supplier who will not tag at source, and for paperwork that has to stay human- and scanner-readable. The practical route is one device that does both: our CX1500N Android UHF handheld pairs an integrated 1D/2D/QR scan engine with its UHF module, so a picker is not carrying two tools. UHF labels can also be overprinted with a barcode and a human-readable serial number on the same face, which keeps one physical label per carton and leaves you a fallback when a tag is damaged.

Will RFID work in our cold storage and washdown areas?

Yes, but not with the same tag you use on a dry carton. As stock moves between zones, condensation and frost form, and ordinary pressure-sensitive label adhesive lets go below freezing — the tag staying attached is usually a bigger risk than the read itself. For chilled and frozen zones specify a sealed hard tag in ABS, PC, PPS or TPU, with epoxy potting or ultrasonic welding where moisture ingress is the concern, fixed mechanically or with epoxy rather than adhesive. Check the rated operating temperature of the reader and handheld too, not just the tag: freezer aisles can sit below what a standard Android handheld is rated for, so read the datasheet before you commit. Identium manufactures these tag housings in New Delhi and is BIS certified — send the surface, the temperature range and how the tag will be fixed, and the housing can be specified around them.

How many antennas does a dock door need, and how will the system know whether a pallet went in or out?

Budget for more than one antenna per full-width dock opening — commonly two, and up to four where the opening is wide or you need direction — and settle direction before you buy, because a single antenna tells you a tag was present, not which way it travelled. Two approaches work. Sequence antennas on a multi-port fixed reader and infer travel direction from the order and the signal strength in which each one sees the tag; four-port readers are a common dock-door choice for exactly this reason. Or use a portal with dedicated direction sensing: Identium's HLR200 gate reader has built-in two-way sensors that separate In from Out as a tag passes between its panels, which suits a doorway or corridor rather than a full-width dock. Count reader ports and antenna cable runs early — those, more than the antennas themselves, tend to fix the panel layout.

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