Motorola, ADT/Tyco, Alien, Impinj, Intel, and Xterprise

This white paper represents a collaborative effort by ADT/Tyco Fire and Security, Alien, Impinj, Intel, Motorola, and Xterprise for the purposes of bringing educational information on ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID technology to the market and examining the suitability of UHF RFID for item-level applications in the pharmaceutical industry. As manufacturers and developers of UHF RFID products and solutions, these companies determined, through interactions with customers — and at the suggestion of customers — that there was a market need for accurate information on the UHF Generation 2 protocol, from a technical and strategic standpoint. This paper presents collective knowledge and data about UHF Gen 2 from the six companies.