Investigation of RFID tag readability for pharmaceutical products at item level

Background: The applications of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology carry a tremendous potential for pharmaceutical industry. There is a pressing need to analyze the performance of RFID tags attached to various pharmaceutical dosage forms. Method: The readability of RFID-tagged pharmace...

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Published in:Drug development and industrial pharmacy Vol. 35; no. 11; pp. 1312 - 1324
Main Authors: Erdem, Ergin, Zeng, Hai, Zhou, Junyi, Shi, Jing, Wells, David L.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Colchester Informa UK Ltd 01.11.2009
Taylor & Francis
Subjects:
Angle of rotation
attenuation
Biological and medical sciences
Dosage Forms - standards
Drug Industry - instrumentation
Drug Industry - methods
Drug Labeling - economics
Drug Labeling - instrumentation
Drug Labeling - methods
General pharmacology
item-level packaging
Medical sciences
pharmaceutical dosage form
Pharmaceutical Preparations - economics
Pharmaceutical Preparations - standards
Pharmaceutical technology. Pharmaceutical industry
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Radio Frequency Identification Device - economics
Radio Frequency Identification Device - methods
RFID
tag readability
Pharmaceutical technology
attenuation
tag readability
item-level packaging
Packaging
Dosage form
pharmaceutical dosage form
RFID
Angle of rotation
Rotation
ISSN:0363-9045, 1520-5762, 1520-5762
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Summary:Background: The applications of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology carry a tremendous potential for pharmaceutical industry. There is a pressing need to analyze the performance of RFID tags attached to various pharmaceutical dosage forms. Method: The readability of RFID-tagged pharmaceutical products is, for the first time, systematically investigated by experiments. Factors considered include dosage forms, ion concentration in solution, angle of rotation, and distance between the RFID tag and the interrogator. Results: Compared with empty container, the filling of any representative dosage forms causes deteriorated readability for the tag attached to container. Analysis of variance reveals that the effects of dosage forms, angle of rotation, and their interaction are statistically significant. In addition, an increase in distance (equivalent to higher RF attenuation level) and higher ion concentration in solution beyond a certain level have detrimental effect on tag readability. Conclusion: The analysis shows that the RFID tag readability is strongly dependent on the factors that are experimented with. The level of the factors for optimum RFID system performance should be adjusted based on the particular application.
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ISSN:0363-9045
1520-5762
1520-5762
DOI:10.3109/03639040902902393