Several European Countries Approve RFID in the 915-921 MHz Band

In recent years, Europe has made significant progress in the field of UHF RFID technology, with 11 more European countries recently approving the use of the 915-921 MHz band for RFID, the latest additions being Austria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Latvia, Malta, Montenegro, and Poland, Romania, Sweden, Serbia, and Turkey, which brings the total number of participating European countries to 35.

The approval of the 915-921 MHz band by a number of European countries has not only led to greater harmonisation of RFID applications within Europe, but has also paved the way for standardisation in the global RFID market. This decision helps to reduce the complexity and cost for manufacturers in designing globally compatible RFID readers and systems, improves product global compatibility, makes rfid tag, rfid reader and rfid system design simpler, and helps to shorten time-to-market for new solutions.

The 915-921 MHz band offers higher bandwidth than the traditional 865 to 868 MHz band, bringing significant technical performance gains. With the new band, RFID technology can increase its read range by 40 per cent and triple its communication speed, while requiring less power consumption.

As an example, the transmission power of the reader was increased from 2 watts to 4 watts in the lower ETSI band.

In addition, the reader channel spacing is doubled from 600 kHz to 1200 kHz and the transmission channel width is widened from 200 kHz to 400 kHz.

The tag backscatter power tolerance has increased tenfold from 10 W in the low frequency band to 100 W in the high frequency band.

These performance improvements will further promote the application of RFID technology in various industries, such as logistics management, inventory management, asset management, etc., to improve overall operational efficiency.