2025-10-01 · 1 min

UWB vs RFID for warehouse drone navigation

UWB vs RFID for warehouse drone navigation

Accuracy, infrastructure cost, and WMS coupling compared.

RFID excels at pallet identification and gate reads but does not provide continuous coordinates for swarm corridor flight.

UWB delivers sub-meter 3D fixes and tolerates typical warehouse multipath when anchor placement is engineered.

A hybrid model—UWB for formation and absolute track, RFID/UHF for bin-level verification—fits large distribution centers well.