Industry Links

The RAIN Alliance works to create transparent, openly available manufacturing-quality specifications, best practices, and benchmarks. It is a great resource which shows that “quality” in RAIN now includes production discipline and certification capacity, not just RFID read range.

Auburn's ARC program exists to ensure RFID tags meet the performance and quality levels needed for real deployments, and it connects those requirements to specs and approved inlay lists. It is a popular certification program for retail and supply chain tag selection.

GS1 TIPP consists of three component documents: grading definitions, test configuration, and testing methodology. It is the best standards based site for explaining how item-level RFID performance gets described consistently between users and suppliers.

EECC's UHF RFID Almanac page explains its UHF Tag Performance Survey as a global benchmark for measuring RFID tags and labels. It also notes EECC's application-specific certification work for tag performance, which makes it a very solid compliance oriented web site.

This is GS1's core resource for the Gen2 air-interface protocol that defines the physical and logical requirements for an RFID system.

GS1's TDS page defines the Electronic Product Code and its correspondence to GS1 keys and other codes. It is the key standards link for people who care about how data is actually encoded onto UHF Gen2 (RAIN) tags.

The RAIN Alliance's tag-encoding page explains the GS1 and ISO numbering paths, and best practices for standards-based encoding. It is one of the most important practical resources for RAIN RFID system integrators.

This is the official ISO catalog abstract and web site for the 860–960 MHz RFID air-interface standard used in item management. It is the canonical standards reference behind the modern RAIN ecosystem.

ETSI EN 302 208 specifies the technical characteristics and test methods for RFID devices in 865–868 MHz and 915–921 MHz. It is the critical European radio-standard document for UHF RFID interrogators and tags operating together as a system.

This is the eCFR rule section for operation within the 902–928 MHz band under the U.S. Part 15 framework. It is the right official link for license-exempt reader rules, especially when people want the power, EIRP, and modulation baseline for North American UHF deployments.

CEPT's ERC Recommendation 70-03 is the core European short-range-device reference document and tracks common spectrum designations plus national implementation status. It is the bigger-picture regulation link behind many RFID allocations and deployment assumptions in Europe.

This document provides an unofficial overview of known UHF allocations in 83 countries for RAIN RFID in the 860 to 930 MHz band.

NXP is a major RAIN RFID chip manufacturer through its UCODE UHF IC family, covering mainstream item-level tagging as well as secure / authenticated variants such as UCODE DNA, 9, 9xe/9xm and X.

Impinj is a leading specialist RAIN RFID chip manufacturer, best known for its Gen2X M800, M700 Monza endpoint IC families, plus high-performance reader IC modules.

EM offer a range of UHF Gen2 (RAIN) ICs, from mainstream chips to dual-frequency (UHF+NFC) chips. EM have also introduced the first official Gen2v3 compliant chips (EM4427v11) which are also dual frequency.

Alien's IC range covers its Higgs family of passive UHF RFID chips and explicitly references EPC Gen2 and ISO/IEC 18000-6C compatibility.

Impinj offers fixed RAIN RFID reader platform as well as edge devices that read, write, and authenticate tagged items. It is one of the most authoritative manufacturer pages for the infrastructure side of the RAIN stack.

Zebra's RFID hub links into fixed readers, handheld readers, printers, antennas, and related infrastructure. It is a useful top-level manufacturer page for readers because Zebra spans both warehouse-grade fixed hardware and mobile RFID devices.

Chainway's RFID section covers handhelds, fixed readers, sleds, wearable readers, and reader modules. It is a strong link if you want to represent the Android-heavy handheld and mobile-reader side of the market.

CAEN RFID's readers page collects the company's mobile and other reader product lines built around RAIN RFID. It is especially relevant for the European reader market.

SML focuses on RFID labels and packaging for inventory accuracy, logistics, traceability, and authenticity applications. SML has a strong and diverse porfolio for item-level retail and source-tagging oriented labeling including environmentally friendly and sustainable production methods.

Avery Dennison Smartrac presents a broad RFID portfolio spanning UHF, HF, and NFC products across retail, healthcare, transport and logistics. Avery is one of the industry's biggest inlay and label suppliers.

Tageos offers a wide range of RAIN RFID inlays and tags optimized for digitizing physical items across many form factors and industries. The page also highlights sustainability-focused product families.

Checkpoint's portfolio page describes an in-house manufactured range of RFID inlays and labels aimed at inventory accuracy, traceability, and retail deployment. Checkpoint has a strong focus on retail apparel and store-operations coverage.