Determining Blocked Wireless Communication Between Devices

A mobile device, comprising:

• a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader to communicate with RFID tags;
• a display device to display a notification that a wireless communication is being blocked;
• a memory and a processing system to implement a scanning application that is configured to:
• initiate the wireless communication as an interrogation of a RFID tag by the RFID reader, the interrogation being initiated based on a scanning cycle;
• activate one or more sensors to obtain sensor data based on a response from the RFID tag of partial data or no data;
• determine whether an object is positioned or located between the mobile device and the RFID tag based on the sensor data;
• determine that the object is likely blocking the interrogation from the RFID reader or the response from the RFID tag;
• and
• adjust the scanning cycle to delay a subsequent interrogation of the RFID tag responsive to the determination that the object is likely blocking the interrogation from the RFID reader or the response from the RFID tag.

A system, comprising:

• a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag associated with a tagged object;
• a RFID reader to communicate with the RFID tag;
• a scanning application that is configured to:
• initiate a wireless communication as an interrogation of the RFID tag by the RFID reader;
• determine whether an object is positioned or located between the RFID reader and the RFID tag based on object detection data;
• determine that the object is likely blocking the interrogation from the RFID reader or a response from the RFID tag based on the determining that the object is positioned or located between the RFID reader and the RFID tag;
• and
• initiate an action to resolve the interrogation from the RFID reader or the response from the RFID tag from being blocked by the object, the action including to adjust a scanning cycle to delay a subsequent interrogation of the RFID tag by the RFID reader.