“But as European companies look to use UHF EPC in their supply chains, they face new and unique challenges. The European Union’s regulatory authorities have only allotted a small sliver of the radio spectrum for use by UHF RFID systems. In North America, UHF RFID systems can use 26 MHz of bandwidth, compared to just 2 MHz for Europe. So if a company has many readers, or interrogators, in the same location, they will all compete to use the same narrow band, thereby creating bottlenecks — think of data from tags as cars driving on a two-lane highway in Europe, compared to a 26-lane highway in North America. Simply put, European companies are not going to get the same performance from their UHF systems as their North American competitors. “
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