Taiwanese Auction Company Sold on RFID

Second-hand luxury goods auction company Bang Master Group (BMG) is employing RFID as part of an automated process for collecting information regarding each item's seller, appraisal and auction sale, as well as unsold inventory. Since the system was introduced in September 2015, the company reports, it has reduced inventory-counting time following auctions, and has ensured that no counterfeits are swapped for authentic goods at any time during the receiving, appraisal or sale process. The system, provided by EPC Solutions Taiwan, consists of passive EPC Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags, fixed and handheld readers, and software to manage the collected RFID read data and forward it to BMG's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.