🛠️ Integration & Tools

UHF RFID reader APIs stack in three tiers: standard LLRP (ISO 24791-5, TCP port 5084), vendor SDKs, and REST/MQTT on smart readers. Vendor SDKs — Impinj Octane/ETK, Zebra Reader SDK, ThingMagic Mercury API, Alien Gateway — wrap LLRP with higher-level abstractions. Modern Gen2 readers inventory 500-1500 unique tags per second, so the integration pattern — polling, event-driven callbacks, filtered reads, MQTT/Kafka streaming — decides latency and throughput.

RFID-to-SAP integration posts events three ways — IDocs (WMMBID02), synchronous BAPIs and OData — with typical rollouts spanning 12-36 months. This guide maps the SAP warehouse stacks (classic WM, EWM, S/4HANA embedded EWM), the master-data model behind tag encoding (SGTIN-96 to material master, SSCC-96 to handling units), and the scenarios from MIGO 101 goods receipt to cycle count. Proud Tek supplies 100k-10M tag runs aligned with customer GS1 prefixes.

A mid-market cloud-ERP practitioner's guide to integrating RFID with Oracle NetSuite for inventory counting, goods receipt, pick verification and omnichannel fulfillment. This page covers NetSuite's inventory and warehouse data model (items, inventory items, lot-numbered, serialized, bins, subsidiaries, locations), the SuiteTalk REST and GraphQL APIs, SuiteScript 2.1 server-side automation, RESTlet custom endpoints, SuiteFlow workflow triggers, the RF-SMART WMS SuiteApp partnership (the most common NetSuite-native WMS with RFID readiness), tag encoding patterns that match NetSuite's GTIN and custom-record fields, and the Proud Tek tag and encoding services sized for mid-market NetSuite customers.

RFID integrates with Shopify through the Admin GraphQL API and App Store middleware, syncing one count to every channel across up to 1,000 locations. This guide covers the multi-location inventory model, the inventoryAdjustQuantities and inventorySetQuantities mutations, Shopify POS reader workflows and webhook-driven sync. Marketplace channels such as Amazon sync within 15-30 minutes, and Proud Tek pre-encoded tags get stores live within a week of delivery.

Programming NFC tags with iPhone takes no code: every iPhone from the XS and XR onward writes NDEF on iOS 13+ with free App Store apps. Reading is broader still: background NDEF URL detection needs no app at all on XS and later. This guide covers the model-by-model compatibility matrix, Shortcuts automation, the Core NFC developer path (NFCNDEFReaderSession, NFCTagReaderSession, entitlements) and the iOS 17.4 CardSession HCE surface.

Programming NFC tags on Android takes two routes: Play Store apps like NFC Tools that write a tag in under 5 seconds, or the android.nfc API. The android.nfc framework (Android 4.0+) exposes NDEF read/write, raw MIFARE Classic and DESFire access, foreground dispatch, and Host-based Card Emulation (Android 5.0+). That is more chip-level access than iPhone allows, which is why advanced programmes — access control, transit emulation, Amiibo — are Android-first.

Three libraries do most Python RFID work: nfcpy for NFC reads in under 10 lines, sllurp for LLRP UHF readers, and pyscard for smart-card APDUs. MFRC522 and PN532 modules cover Raspberry Pi and microcontroller builds, and libnfc bindings unlock low-level control. This guide maps each library to frequency band, reader hardware and use case, with copy-paste snippets and Proud Tek sample kits for prototyping.