RFID Interrogator Information Jam

Corps Distribution Center Operations in Iraq

Captain Bret D. Jones, USAR, and Lieutenant Colonel Emmett C. Schuster, USAR, write ...

... "Initially, the inbound radio frequency identification (RFID) tag interrogator was perched on top of the CDC control building near the sustainment cargo, a position that could adversely affect the tags on the cargo stored in the area. Multiple pinging of the RFID tags on containers that sit in the arc of an interrogator depletes the tags' batteries and can cause an information jam in the interrogator system. " ...