Not every business that wants RFID needs to throw out its existing handhelds and buy a whole new fleet. If you already run CipherLab RK25 terminals for barcode scanning, the fastest and cheapest way to add RFID capability isn't a new device — it's the CipherLab UHF RFID reader sled that snaps onto the device you already own. It's a product we get asked about constantly by warehouses that piloted RFID on a handful of SKUs and now want to scale up without a full hardware refresh.
CipherLab UHF RFID Reader Specifications
This is a UHF RFID sled designed specifically for the RK25 (and compatible RK26) series, operating in the 865-867 MHz band used in India, with an EPC Class1 Gen2 V2-compliant circularly polarized antenna. In real warehouse conditions it reads at a range of over 8 metres and can process 700+ tags per second, which is the difference between counting a pallet of RFID-tagged cartons one at a time and reading the whole pallet in a single sweep. It offers two selectable reading angles — a narrow 10-degree mode for picking out a single tag in a cluttered shelf, and a wide 70-degree mode for bulk reads — and runs on its own 3.6V 3000mAh battery, so it doesn't drain the host terminal's charge. It comes with an India-spec adapter and battery included.
Where This Reader Gets Used
The clearest use case is jewellery retail, where RFID-tagged tags let a store do a full showroom stock count in minutes instead of hours —ideal for chains across Mumbai, Delhi NCR, and Hyderabad running daily reconciliation. Apparel and footwear retailers use it for the same reason: item-level RFID tagging turns a slow manual stocktake into a walk-through scan. In warehousing, we see it used for pallet-level and carton-level verification during dispatch, where a single sweep confirms every tagged item in a shipment matches the order before the truck leaves the dock. It's also increasingly common in asset tracking for manufacturing plants in Chennai, Pune, and Bengaluru that are tagging tools, moulds, or returnable containers with UHF tags to cut down on losses.
Why Add This Instead of Buying New Hardware
The real advantage of the CipherLab UHF RFID reader is that it protects the investment you've already made in RK25 barcode terminals. Field teams don't need to learn a second device, IT doesn't need to provision and manage a separate RFID-only handheld, and your MDM policies and apps carry over unchanged — the sled just adds a capability to hardware that's already deployed and working. For most mid-size Indian retailers and warehouses piloting RFID, this is a fraction of the cost of a purpose-built RFID handheld computer, with comparable read performance for typical retail and warehouse tag densities.
Buying and Support in India
Infinite Solutions is a trusted multi-brand barcode hardware supplier and stocks the CipherLab UHF RFID reader alongside the RK25 terminals it's designed for. We're not a CipherLab-authorised partner in the formal sense we are for TSC, Printronix, and BlueBird, but our Delhi-based team has fitted these sleds into working RFID pilots for retail and warehouse customers across Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Pune, and can help with tag selection, read-range tuning, and integration into your existing inventory software.
Talk to Us About Adding RFID
If you're weighing UHF RFID reader price in India options against a full RFID handheld purchase, get in touch with Infinite Solutions first. In most cases we can show you exactly how many existing RK25 terminals in your fleet can be upgraded with this sled, and what that saves you compared to buying new RFID-capable devices outright.