In the cold chain a tag has to do more than read. It has to stay stuck and, if temperature matters, record it correctly. Those are two separate requirements colliding on one label.
What makes RFID worth it in jewellery is not speed, it is value per item. A tiny tag, a tight budget, and zero tolerance for loss.
The same tag reads differently depending on the reader. Four things to check before you choose, and which job each reader type actually fits.
The wrong ribbon ruins print quality first and label durability second. Here is what separates the three ribbon types and where each one belongs.
The same chip behaves completely differently on a different surface. Here are the four things to check in order, and how a proper site test is run.
Most digital transformation projects stall long before the technology choice. They stall at deciding which data is worth collecting.
What a newer UHF chip buys you in practice: the same read performance from a smaller tag, and fewer dead spots on difficult surfaces.
NFC belongs to the RFID family. Beyond that shared ancestry it has little in common with the RFID used on a warehouse floor.
RFID is not a counting technology, it is a visibility technology. Here is where it earns its cost and where barcodes are still the better answer.
