Dual-frequency RFID is a special application market, is still relatively narrow, the industry chain is relatively simple, the current market dual-frequency RFID chip players are EM and Shanghai Kunrui, in addition to UHF+HF made of the same IC, the market has some scenarios using UHF tag +HF tag two different tags together.
In addition to chip threshold, dual-frequency label equipment and manufacturing will also be more difficult than ordinary labels, because the working principles of HF and UHF are completely different, one is near-field coupling, and the other is far-field radiation, requiring two different antenna combinations.
In addition, the current use of dual-frequency products is not large, so dual-frequency RFID products, whether chips or labels, are more expensive than ordinary.
According to the information we have investigated, the usage and application scenarios of dual-frequency RFID tags are increasing rapidly and may become a new market growth point.
- Introduction to the advantages of dual-frequency RFID
The advantages of dual-frequency RFID products mainly include the following two aspects
Advantage 1: Retain the UHF RFID rapid mass inventory function
The biggest advantage of UHF RFID is the long transmission distance and group reading, which is very suitable for some scenarios that need to realize rapid inventory, especially in the B-end storage logistics and sorting links.
Advantage two: it retains the ability of HF RFID to interact with mobile phones
Because NFC on mobile phones is an HF RFID technology, HF RFID tags can directly interact with mobile phones, which greatly expands the use boundary of RFID. In daily consumer goods, there is a demand for identifying authenticity and anti-counterfeiting and tracing of expensive items.
Therefore, dual-frequency RFID tag products can not only meet the needs of B end for efficiency turnover, loss prevention, and visual management but also meet the needs of C end crowd anti-counterfeiting traceability, which can form a good closed loop in business.
- Introduction to dual-frequency RFID market and application
The application scenarios of dual-frequency RFID products mainly have the following characteristics
First, the use scenario should combine the high inventory efficiency of UHF and the characteristics of high-frequency interaction with mobile phones, which requires a relatively large amount of consumption and concentration, to meet the demand of mass inventory. Second, the product has a strong consumption attribute, which requires direct interaction with consumers.
Second, the unit price of the product in the application scenario is relatively expensive, because the product is relatively expensive, it will stimulate consumers’ demand for anti-counterfeiting traceability. In addition, the price of dual-frequency RFID tag products is also much more expensive than that of single-frequency tags, and it requires high-value scenes to bear such cost input.
Third, there is a strong demand for authenticity identification, but there is a lack of authoritative endorsement products on the market. This kind of product needs consumers to identify authenticity by themselves, which requires the use of technical means.
Following this logic, we feel that the following areas are suitable for dual-frequency products.
- High-end wine products
The field to be mass using dual-frequency RFID products are scenes, because high-end liquor, on the one hand, large shipments, such as Maotai, Juliane, and other high-end liquor shipments each year is being level of hundreds of millions, even have a demand on the warehouse inventory, in addition, the high-end liquor is hundreds of yuan less, many thousands of yuan price also can completely cover double-frequency tag input costs, Consumer is higher to the true and false requirement of liquor.
- Luxuries
For example, high-end watches, bags, and other products are very expensive, and consumers have a strong demand for the authenticity of such products. Moreover, the scale of the current market is also large, which requires rapid inventory, so dual-frequency is often used in such scenes. It is understood that there are also a lot of luxury brands in the foreign market that are trying to use dual-frequency RFID tags.
- Collectibles
Collection products include stone and stone jade, antique calligraphy and painting, as well as all kinds of handicrafts, etc., the price of this kind of product is very expensive, but the identification of true and false needs very high professional ability, ordinary people’s identification is difficult, you need to use dual-frequency RFID tags to screen.
