TrakChain Estimates Costs for Track and Trace in the Internet of (many) Things

Evaluation After the NFC-based inventory system was introduced, problems with using this approach in a practical environment soon became apparent. These problems were caused by the poor response of NFC tags, when any metal object was in their vicinity. As even some smartphones have metal cases, this resulted in a poor NFC communication reception. Thus, the evaluation recommends that smartphones with metal case are not used with an NFC-based inventory system. All following evaluations were performed with non-metallic smartphones.