UHF ABS Hard Tag for Apparel ID-ABS-APP73

A reusable UHF RFID hard tag for apparel

Paper swing tags are thrown away at billing; a hard tag is meant to come back. The ID-ABS-APP73 houses a UHF inlay in a rigid ABS case that protects it from crushing, humidity and the daily handling of a busy store, and it can be re-encoded for the next garment. With 100,000 write cycles and 10-year data retention, the same tag can serve season after season.

How stores and warehouses use it

UHF tags are read in bulk, so a staff member with a handheld reader can count a full rack or a sealed carton without scanning barcodes one by one. Read range is up to 3 m. Typical workflows include:

• Cycle counts on the shop floor and in the stockroom
• Receiving and dispatch checks in garment warehouses
• Issue and return of uniforms and rental garments

Compatibility and encoding

The tag uses an Impinj Monza R6-P chip on EPC Class 1 Gen2 / ISO 18000-6C and covers 860–960 MHz, which includes India’s 865–868 MHz band as well as EU and US bands. Custom chip encoding is available on request; retailers commonly encode GS1 numbers, explained in our SGTIN-96 encoding guide. To plan a store rollout, read RFID in apparel and fashion retail.