The IOTE 2026 Shenzhen RFID Passive IoT Ecosystem Forum was successfully held at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, bringing together experts and technology leaders from across the global RFID and passive IoT ecosystem.
Organized by the Shenzhen IoT Industry Association and co-hosted by IoT Media, IOTE IoT Expo, and the AIoT XingTu Research Institute, the forum gathered representatives from the RAIN Alliance, RFID chip and tag manufacturers, material suppliers, system integrators, and end users to explore the next stage of passive IoT development in the AI era.
Global Perspectives on the Evolution of Passive IoT
The forum officially opened at 9:30 a.m., with industry professionals gathering at the venue. Following the opening remarks by the moderator, Juho Partanen, Board Member of the RAIN Alliance, delivered the opening address.
From a global perspective, Partanen reviewed the current development of the international RAIN RFID industry and the progress of relevant standards. He also highlighted the growing demand for physical-world identification driven by the development of Physical AI, which is increasingly connecting AI capabilities with real-world environments.
Partanen recognized the technological innovation achieved by China’s RFID ecosystem across chips, tags, and system solutions, and called on industry stakeholders in China and overseas markets to strengthen interoperability between standards, deepen project collaboration, and work together to accelerate the large-scale adoption of passive IoT technologies across industries and geographies.
From RFID Identification to AI-Ready Physical Data
A central theme of the seminar was the growing importance of high-quality data from the physical world.
Lei Ren, General Manager of the Technology Center at XIAMEN XINDECO IOT TECHNOLOGY LTD., delivered a presentation titled “Digital and Physical Coexistence, Intelligence Leading the Future: Building the Data Foundation for the AI Era with High-Performance RFID Technology.”
Ren pointed out that the AI industry is facing a growing data shortage. While publicly available Internet-based text data has already been extensively utilized by large AI models, more than 90% of data generated by physical-world entities remains largely undigitized.
In his view, high-quality sensing data from the physical world will become a critical foundation for the next generation of AI applications.
Ren identified six major factors that can degrade RFID performance in real-world operating environments:
- Tag impedance mismatch
- Material-induced attenuation
- Multipath effects
- Polarization losses
- Mutual coupling and tag shielding
- Channel interference
These challenges become particularly significant in complex environments involving liquids, metal surfaces, and densely stacked goods. Tags may experience missed reads or false reads, causing data inaccuracies to propagate upward into enterprise systems. The result can include discrepancies between WMS/ERP records and physical inventory, as well as inaccurate outputs from AI prediction models — essentially a “garbage in, garbage out” problem.
Ren argued that improving data quality at the hardware level is often more efficient and fundamental than relying on downstream noise reduction, algorithmic correction, or manual verification.
During the session, he introduced HoloTrace, an integrated hardware-software tracking system developed by ITG Intelligent IoT. The system combines heterogeneous antenna coordination, fast-fading suppression, multi-level noise filtering, and machine-learning-based trajectory reconstruction to transform raw RFID reads into reliable business data.
The company also unveiled two tag product families, VersaTrack and AuraField. Featuring high-aspect-ratio omnidirectional antennas, material-insensitive designs, mutual-coupling resistance, and patented cutting technologies, the products are designed to improve RFID performance in demanding retail and warehousing environments and provide AI systems with continuous, multidimensional, and reliable physical-world data.
Reassessing the Role of Passive IoT in the AI Era
Linli Yang, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Quanray Electronics Co., Ltd., delivered a presentation titled “Reassessing the New Mission and Value of Passive IoT in the AI Era.”
Yang outlined three major shifts in the value proposition of passive IoT.
First, passive IoT is evolving from a conventional management tool into foundational infrastructure for the AI sensing layer.
Second, it is moving beyond passive identity recognition toward a complete loop in which sensing enables AI-driven decisions and automated execution. Passive tags can provide more than basic identity information: they can also deliver data related to location, orientation, and status, while supporting actions such as triggering indicator lights, locating items, or generating alerts.
Third, passive IoT has the potential to expand from billion-scale applications toward trillion-scale connectivity, enabled by the low cost and battery-free characteristics of passive technologies. This could make it increasingly feasible to assign a digital identity to individual products, components, and physical objects.
Referencing Tau’s Law, Yang argued that beyond computing capacity, the sensing layer remains one of the major bottlenecks in today’s AI systems, with a substantial share of physical-world data still not digitized.
She also introduced Quanray’s three-layer passive IoT technology portfolio covering near-field, local-area, and wide-area connectivity: RFID, passive Bluetooth AoA positioning, and Ambient IoT cellular connectivity. Together, these technologies create a broad data-acquisition architecture.
The company is working toward a continuous loop of passive data collection → AI analysis → automated execution → data feedback, evolving passive IoT from one-time data capture into a continuously optimized data ecosystem.
Examples presented at the forum included factory asset management, medical equipment tracking, tamper detection, and location-based fault alerts. These applications highlighted the potential advantages of battery-free, low-cost, and wide-coverage passive IoT technologies.
Flexible Chips for Item-Level Intelligence
James Davey, Senior Vice President of Sales, Business Development and Product Management at Pragmatic Semiconductor, delivered a presentation titled “Enabling Item-Level Intelligence at Scale.”
Davey noted that the industry has long envisioned a world in which every consumer product can have some form of intelligence. However, conventional silicon-based chips can be costly, relatively rigid, and difficult to integrate into flexible or curved surfaces, limiting large-scale deployment at the individual-item level.
He introduced Pragmatic Semiconductor’s FlexIC flexible integrated circuit technology. These ultra-thin, flexible chips can be seamlessly integrated into packaging, labels, and curved consumer products. Compared with conventional silicon wafer manufacturing, the technology can significantly reduce the consumption of water, electricity, and chemicals during production, supporting a more resource-efficient manufacturing approach.
Two products received particular attention during the session:
NFC Connect is designed for consumer engagement and Digital Product Passport (DPP) applications, enabling consumers to interact with a brand or digital product experience simply by tapping an NFC-enabled product with a smartphone.
NFC Protect focuses on tamper detection and authentication, with applications including pharmaceuticals and premium alcoholic beverages, helping determine whether product packaging has been opened or altered.
Davey also outlined the company’s next-generation manufacturing roadmap. With production lines designed to reach annual output in the billions of flexible ICs and short-cycle customization capabilities, Pragmatic aims to address the long development cycles associated with traditional chip manufacturing and accelerate the commercialization of item-level intelligence across retail, healthcare, logistics, and other sectors.
Simplifying RFID to Its Core Function: Identifying Everything
Linken Yang, Vice President of Application Systems at Sichuan Kiloway Technologies Co, Ltd, presented “Ultra-Simple RFID: Bringing Item Identification Back to Its Core.”
Yang identified one of the major barriers to large-scale RFID adoption: conventional RFID chips are primarily designed around rewritable data storage, requiring additional encoding and verification processes. However, many disposable or single-use applications do not require data to be rewritten multiple times.
To address this issue, Kailuwei developed its RF-o-ID ultra-simple read-only architecture and the ONLY series of chips.
Built around the company’s proprietary XLPM ultra-low-power permanent memory, the chips receive a globally unique, read-only S-EPC code at the wafer stage. The tags can therefore be used directly after manufacturing, eliminating on-site encoding, verification, and rejection processes.
According to the company, this architecture can reduce the overall application cost of RFID tags by approximately 40%.
With shipments already reaching hundreds of millions of units, the technology is positioned as a chip-level alternative to conventional barcodes and is designed to accelerate the adoption of RFID-based “smart barcodes” in high-volume disposable applications.
The ONLY read-only chip complies with the C1G2 international standard, combining high sensitivity with a low-cost architecture. Its design philosophy is straightforward: the chip focuses on identification, while business logic and data processing are handled in the cloud.
By simplifying RFID hardware and returning the technology to its fundamental role as an identification layer, Kailuwei aims to unlock large-scale applications across apparel, retail, logistics and supply chains, pharmaceuticals, and other high-volume sectors, while contributing to the broader digital transformation of manufacturing and commerce.
Breaking the RFID Sensitivity Barrier
Zhenbiao Li, Founder and General Manager of Maxwave Microelectronics Ltd, delivered a presentation titled “Breaking the Boundaries of Sensing: A -32 dBm Sensitivity Breakthrough for UHF RFID Enabled by AIoT.”
Li explained that multipath propagation and weak-signal environments have long limited RFID read range and read reliability. At the chip level, receiver sensitivity remains one of the fundamental performance constraints.
According to Li, mainstream commercial UHF RFID chips typically operate at sensitivity levels of around -25 to -26 dBm. Zhihui Xinlian has developed its proprietary RangeX2® RF architecture, achieving an over-the-air read sensitivity of -32 dBm.
Higher sensitivity can improve tag readability in challenging environments involving metal, liquids, signal obstruction, and long-distance communication, potentially expanding the range of RFID applications.
The company’s products are compatible with the Gen2V2 international standard and support conventional applications such as warehouse and retail inventory management. At the same time, the company is exploring opportunities in 5G-A Ambient IoT, where passive tags could communicate directly with cellular infrastructure.
Li also discussed the opportunities and challenges facing China’s domestic RF chip industry, emphasizing that improvements at the chip level can reduce the dependence on highly optimized antennas and readers and help passive IoT technologies expand into broader industry and wide-area applications.
From QMS to Customer Trust: The Value of ARC Quality Certification
Dr. Jeremy Liu, Chief Technology Officer of Hana Technologies, presented “From QMS to Customer Trust: The Value of the ARC Quality System.”
Liu began with a common challenge in the RFID industry: tags can perform well in laboratory testing but exhibit significant performance variation or batch-to-batch inconsistencies once deployed in real-world projects. Such discrepancies can result in implementation failures, rework, and increased project costs.
Traditional general-purpose Quality Management Systems (QMS) do not always fully address the specific RF performance requirements of RFID inlays.
The ARC framework is a specialized quality certification system for passive UHF RFID inlays. It focuses on RF performance consistency, manufacturing-process stability, and cross-batch performance control, establishing a standardized and practical framework covering testing, quality control, and certification.
Using Hana as a case study, Liu explained the core structure of the ARC system and its differences from conventional quality management practices.
ARC certification is designed to help inlay manufacturers deliver more consistent products while enabling system integrators and brands to reduce project risks associated with variations between tag batches.
By connecting quality management across raw materials, manufacturing, and end applications, the framework aims to strengthen trust throughout the global RFID supply chain and provide an additional quality foundation for large-scale RFID commercialization.
Advancing Silver-Free Conductive Materials for RFID
Huanhuan Feng, Technical Director of Harbin Shenzhen Technology Corporation, delivered a session titled “Progress in Silver-Free Conductive Inks for RFID.”
Silver-based conductive ink is widely used in printed RFID antennas, but fluctuations in silver prices can directly affect tag costs and create an additional barrier to large-scale RFID deployment.
Developing silver-free conductive inks has therefore become an important direction for reducing costs across the RFID value chain.
Feng introduced Hashen’s latest developments in copper-based conductive inks. Through nanoscale powder surface and interface modification, the company aims to address the oxidation challenges traditionally associated with copper materials.
Compared with silver-based inks, the company’s silver-free formulations have reached commercial application requirements in areas such as adhesion, printability, and RF performance, while offering significant cost advantages.
Feng also discussed additive printing technologies, which can reduce pollution and improve material utilization compared with conventional etching processes. Combined with the development of fully paper-based biodegradable RFID tags, these technologies could help address both cost reduction and sustainability objectives.
At the same time, Feng acknowledged that silver-free conductive materials still face challenges in long-term reliability under extreme temperatures and high-humidity environments. She called for greater collaboration among tag manufacturers, chip suppliers, and other industry stakeholders to accelerate technological iteration and commercial-scale adoption.
A Full-Spectrum View of the RFID Ecosystem
With the conclusion of the morning sessions, the first half of the forum covered the RFID ecosystem from multiple perspectives — from global industry trends and the convergence of AI and passive IoT to flexible chips, domestic UHF chip innovation, simplified chip architectures, quality systems, and upstream printing materials.
The sessions connected the entire value chain, spanning materials, chips, tags, readers, systems, and AI-enabled applications.
The program combined international industry practices with practical technology achievements from Chinese companies. Audience engagement was particularly active, with participants and speakers exchanging views on challenging read environments, tag cost reduction, domestic technology substitution, and the commercialization of physical-world data for AI applications.
Deep Dive into the 2026 China RFID Passive IoT Industry White Paper
The afternoon program began at 1:50 p.m.
Zhongliang Zhang, Head of the AIoT Star Map Research Institute, delivered an in-depth interpretation of the “2026 China RFID Passive IoT Industry White Paper.”
Zhang highlighted a key industry trend: as AIoT applications increasingly seek lower-cost sensing solutions, passive IoT is emerging as a natural direction. RFID has already become an important option for many companies implementing personnel and asset management systems.
The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the three major RFID technology segments — UHF, HF, and LF — covering multiple dimensions of the global and Chinese markets.
For UHF RFID, the report examines downstream applications including supermarkets and convenience stores, footwear and apparel, fast-moving consumer goods, express delivery and logistics, and emerging application sectors. It also analyzes regional market distribution, inlay manufacturing locations, the geographic distribution of inlay manufacturers, domestic composite tags and specialty tags, the Chinese end-user market, and shipments across different reader categories.
One notable finding presented in the report is that China currently accounts for only 8.7% of global end-user RFID tag consumption, despite its strong manufacturing capabilities and extensive supply-chain infrastructure. The report identifies this imbalance as one of the factors contributing to intense competition within the domestic RFID industry.
The HF RFID market, meanwhile, has moved beyond its previous contraction phase and is seeing steady growth in applications such as electronic shelf labels, electronic device pairing, and tap-to-pay interactions.
The LF market remains primarily driven by animal identification and management, with overseas demand accounting for a significant share.
Looking ahead, the report projects relatively stable growth in the RFID market from 2026 to 2030. Regulatory initiatives such as food and pharmaceutical traceability requirements and the European Union’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) are expected to become important drivers of future demand for identification and data-carrying technologies.
Recognition of White Paper Contributors
Following the presentation, the organizers held a recognition ceremony for the companies that contributed to the 2026 China RFID Passive IoT Industry White Paper.
The initiative brought together companies across the value chain to build shared industry knowledge and promote broader collaboration.
The organizers expressed their appreciation to Checkpoint Commercial (Shanghai) Co.Ltd, Shenzhen Xianshi Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong Tengcai Technology Co., Ltd., Hana Technologies Inc., Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Chainway Information Co., Ltd., and Dongguan Osi IoT Technology Co., Ltd. for their contributions and support.
Building a Full-Supply-Chain RFID Ecosystem for Footwear and Apparel
Haijun Zhang, General Manager of Guangzhou Lead IoT Technology Co.,Ltd, then delivered a practical presentation titled “Co-Creating the RFID Market Across the Footwear and Apparel Supply Chain.”
With 30 years of experience in fashion-industry digitalization and 12 years of experience implementing RFID projects in footwear and apparel, Zhang began by addressing several common operational challenges faced by brands:
- Inefficient inventory counting
- Frequent SKU discrepancies and shortages
- Difficulty controlling gray-market distribution and counterfeiting across channels
- Fragmented data across multiple systems
- Limited traceability for returned products
He introduced Lide’s Lingchuang RFID SaaS-based end-to-end solution, which differs from traditional highly customized implementations by significantly lowering the technology adoption threshold for footwear and apparel companies.
According to Zhang, pilot deployment can be completed in as little as one week, with overall acceptance and go-live typically achievable within approximately one month. The platform supports multiple commercial models, including tenant-based subscriptions, annual leasing, and perpetual licensing.
The presentation covered four interconnected business environments:
Smart Factory: tag encoding, defective-product management, carton verification, and scheduled delivery.
Smart Warehouse: bulk receiving and dispatch, quality inspection, verification, and inventory management.
Smart Store: receiving and dispatch, inventory and item locating, merchandise display data collection, fitting-room data capture, RFID-enabled self-checkout, and loss prevention.
E-commerce: prevention of unauthorized cross-channel distribution, return sorting and identification, and counterfeit interception.
The solution can integrate with brands’ existing ERP and WMS systems, reducing the need for large-scale replacement of existing IT infrastructure.
Zhang also introduced a complete portfolio of RFID hardware designed for the footwear and apparel industry, including RFID stickers, hang tags, washable care labels, handheld terminals, portal readers, and self-checkout equipment.
Drawing on project experience with more than 100 footwear and apparel brands, Zhang emphasized that RFID transformation should extend across the entire supply chain rather than focus on isolated operational processes.
He also highlighted Lide’s open partnership model for channel partners and called for greater ecosystem collaboration to expand the domestic footwear and apparel RFID market. At the same time, RFID infrastructure can help brands prepare in advance for compliance requirements associated with the EU’s Digital Product Passport for textiles.
Combining RFID and RTLS for Smarter Warehousing
Chunlei Shi, General Manager of Shenzhen Fuwit Technology Co.,Ltd., presented “Combining RFID and RTLS to Create a New Model for Intelligent Warehouse Management.”
Shi noted that China’s warehousing and logistics sector continues to expand, while many facilities still face challenges such as inaccurate item-to-location matching, inefficient item retrieval, difficulties implementing FIFO processes, underutilized storage capacity, and limited safety and performance management for forklift operations.
Although many companies have already deployed WMS platforms, these systems often lack reliable real-time sensing data from the physical environment. As a result, the WMS may record where goods should be, rather than where they actually are.
Quanshunhong proposes an integrated architecture in which RFID provides identity identification, while RTLS technologies such as UWB and BLE provide precise positioning for workers, forklifts, and pallets.
The approach is designed to upgrade existing warehouse infrastructure rather than require a complete replacement. Traditional forklifts can be equipped with RFID vehicle-mounted reader kits, UWB positioning tags, and onboard tablets. RFID tags are deployed on pallets, racks, and storage locations, while RTLS positioning anchors are installed throughout the warehouse.
The presentation compared RFID, UWB, and Bluetooth AoA in terms of capabilities, cost, positioning accuracy, and deployment requirements.
It also demonstrated the end-to-end warehouse workflow covering receiving, put-away, storage, retrieval, outbound processing, and shipping.
For example, pallet information can be linked to MES data when the pallet leaves production. Forklifts then identify the pallet and storage location using RFID, while RTLS navigation guides the operator to the correct position and automatically feeds the data back to the WMS.
During outbound operations, the system performs automated verification, followed by secondary confirmation at warehouse access points. Shipment information is then linked to the relevant pallet or order at the loading dock.
This enables automated data collection throughout the operation and reduces manual data entry.
The company also presented implementations across different warehouse configurations, including open-floor warehouses, automated storage and retrieval systems, and hybrid facilities. Application scenarios included tire manufacturing, building materials, customs-regulated warehouses, power-asset warehouses, and automotive stamping plants.
These deployments support functions such as inventory heat-map visualization, forklift performance analytics, and personnel safety alerts, helping traditional warehouses transition toward more efficient and data-driven operations without fundamentally changing existing workflows.
GS1 Digital Link: The “Identity and Passport” of RFID Tags
Yan Luo, Technical Director of the RFID Quality Inspection Center of the China National Article Numbering Center, delivered “The ‘Identity Card’ and ‘Passport’ of RFID Tags: A Deep Dive into GS1 Digital Link Coding, Certification and Testing.”
Starting with the global product identification system, Luo provided an in-depth explanation of the GS1 Digital Link standard and how it transforms traditional GTINs (Global Trade Item Numbers) into standardized URI-based digital links.
This enables multiple digital entry points for a single product identity.
The same product identifier can support POS scanning while also directing consumers to product information, repair manuals, regulatory documentation, recycling instructions, and other digital services.
This capability makes GS1 Digital Link an important coding foundation for applications such as the EU Digital Product Passport.
The presentation also explained how product identification data can be stored in RFID chip memory and how RFID, QR codes, and GS1 identifiers can coexist and work together.
Luo further examined RFID tag certification and testing, including RF performance, environmental reliability, data read/write consistency, and coding compliance.
She highlighted common challenges faced by Chinese companies expanding overseas, including non-standardized coding practices and RFID products that fail to meet required performance specifications.
Drawing on examples from retail, healthcare, and cross-border trade, Luo emphasized that standardized identification combined with reliable testing and certification can enable RFID tags to function as a common digital identity across countries, systems, and supply chains — connecting China’s manufacturing ecosystem with global compliance requirements.
Open SRC Standards for Scalable Supply-Chain RFID
Li Yan, Chief Hardware and Algorithm Engineer of SF Technology’s Supply Chain Solution Business Group, presented “Building Trusted IoT Together: How Open SRC Standards Can Accelerate RFID Adoption Across the Supply Chain.”
Yan analyzed why RFID, despite its advantages in bulk reading and non-line-of-sight identification, has yet to achieve widespread adoption across China’s express delivery and logistics sector.
He argued that the primary barrier is not the underlying chip technology, but the lack of unified standards tailored to the country’s highly complex parcel-handling environments.
Logistics parcels can contain a wide variety of materials, including metal, liquids, and soft packaging. Tag orientation can vary significantly, while high-speed sorting equipment introduces vibration and other forms of interference.
As a result, generic RFID tags may experience missed reads and false reads, while compatibility issues between chips, tags, and readers from different manufacturers can lead to inconsistent project performance.
To address these challenges, SF has introduced the SRC Open RFID Supply Chain Standard, designed to be openly available to the industry.
The framework covers the entire chain, including chip specifications, tag RF performance, environmental reliability, deployment requirements, and testing and validation methods.
It also establishes quantitative requirements specifically addressing complex logistics environments and signal attenuation caused by metal and liquids.
Yan explained the design philosophy and validation methodology behind the SRC standard and introduced tag products jointly developed with ecosystem partners to meet its requirements.
He emphasized that large-scale RFID adoption across supply chains requires an open and unified sensing standard that can serve as a “source of truth” for physical-world supply-chain data.
Instead of relying on manual reporting, businesses can collect real-world movement and handling data automatically and provide upper-layer applications with reliable and consistent data.
SF also invited stakeholders across the RFID value chain to participate in the SRC ecosystem, with the goal of reducing integration costs and accelerating RFID deployment in high-value goods transportation and warehousing.
RFID Hardware Innovation for Complex Industry Applications
Jin Ke, Sales Director of Newland AIDC, presented “Newland AIDC: Enabling Innovative RFID Applications Across Diverse Industry Scenarios.”
From the perspective of RFID hardware terminals, Ke discussed how readers and identification devices can be optimized for China’s diverse and complex application environments.
He emphasized that passive IoT is about more than tags. The performance, algorithms, and environmental adaptability of readers and other identification terminals can directly determine the outcome of an RFID project.
Newland AIDC has optimized algorithms for its portfolio of UHF RFID handheld terminals, fixed readers, and RFID modules, addressing challenges such as metal interference, high-density multi-tag reading, and false reads.
The presentation showcased practical deployments across multiple industries.
In duty-free retail, anti-transfer and tamper-evident RFID tags are combined with multi-channel fixed readers to support the full lifecycle of high-value tobacco and alcohol products, from receiving and inventory management to departure verification and tax-refund processes.
In power-asset management, RFID enables reliable identification of electric meters installed in compact, densely packed cabinets.
Other applications include end-to-end manufacturing and warehouse traceability, smart retail self-checkout, and rapid store inventory counting.
Ke also discussed deep integration between RFID equipment and domestically developed chips, as well as compatibility with specialty RFID tags developed for specific applications.
Looking ahead, Newland AIDC highlighted several potential directions for RFID terminal evolution, including miniaturization, multimodal integration, and AI-assisted identification, with solutions targeting industries such as manufacturing, retail, power, and healthcare.
Entering the DPP Era: Preparing Chinese Manufacturers for Global Markets
The final presentation was delivered by Jun Tang, General Manager of Shenzhen Zhihui IoT Technology Co., Ltd., under the title “The DPP Era Has Arrived: How Companies Across Industries Can Navigate the New Rules for Global Expansion — From Batteries to Textiles.”
Tang focused on one of the most significant regulatory developments affecting Chinese manufacturers expanding overseas: the European Union’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) framework.
The battery sector has already become one of the first areas to face mandatory DPP-related requirements, while textiles, electronics, furniture, and other product categories are expected to be increasingly incorporated into the regulatory framework.
For many Chinese exporters, limited understanding of these requirements could create significant compliance challenges.
Tang outlined several core DPP requirements, including:
- A unique digital identity for each product
- Raw-material and supply-chain traceability
- Carbon-footprint and life-cycle assessment (LCA) data
- Recycling and circularity information
- Compliance documentation and certification records
Meeting these requirements requires a combination of hardware and software capable of continuously updating and managing product data throughout the entire lifecycle.
Tang also identified common challenges faced by Chinese exporters, including uncertainty over technology selection, high system implementation costs, concerns about cross-border data security, and the complexity of overseas registration and system integration.
He then introduced VigDPP, a full-stack DPP solution that uses RFID and NFC tags as physical data carriers and integrates identity resolution, blockchain, and DID-based decentralized digital identity technologies.
The platform supports both lightweight SaaS deployment and private deployment models, following a security principle of “keeping data within the country while making verifiable indexes available.”
For two key sectors — power batteries and textiles/apparel — Tang presented end-to-end implementation approaches.
For battery passports, VigDPP can connect with BMS and MES systems to automatically collect information such as cell-level data, carbon emissions, and second-life utilization.
For textiles, the solution supports durable, washable UHF and NFC textile labels designed for long-term product identification and traceability.
Tang concluded by recommending a phased approach to DPP implementation. Companies can begin by deploying RFID-based passive identification as the physical entry point, while building the digital infrastructure required for future DPP compliance.
This approach can help Chinese manufacturers prepare for evolving international trade regulations and establish the digital capabilities required to compete in increasingly compliance-driven global markets.
Looking Ahead
With the conclusion of the afternoon sessions, the IOTE 2026 Shenzhen RFID Passive IoT Ecosystem Forum came to a successful close.
Across the full-day program, industry leaders explored the evolution of passive IoT from multiple perspectives — from chips, materials, tags, readers, and quality standards to AI, supply-chain applications, and global compliance.
The discussions highlighted a common direction for the industry: passive IoT is moving beyond simple identification toward becoming a foundational sensing infrastructure for the physical world.
As AI continues to expand into real-world environments, the ability to identify, sense, track, and authenticate physical objects at scale will become increasingly important.
IOTE looks forward to continuing to bring together technology providers, solution developers, manufacturers, brands, and ecosystem partners to accelerate innovation and commercialization across the global RFID and passive IoT industry.
See you at IOTE next year!