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RFID Tag Memory: EPC, TID, User Banks Explained
How your parcel knows where it is
Audi tags paint atomisers with RFID on 28 Ingolstadt robots for demand-driven maintenance
River Island Opens RFID Concept Store at centre:mk With Weight-Sensing Self-Checkout
Keio, JRC and UPR prototype what they call the world’s first 920MHz hybrid active-passive RFID tag
RFID Tag Memory: EPC, TID, User Banks Explained
Every EPC Gen2 tag carries four memory banks, and a kill password stored in one of them can silence the tag forever. Understanding Reserved, EPC, TID and User memory determines…
How your parcel knows where it is
It does not. Your parcel carries a number, and a network of scanners records every time that number is seen. Follow one box from warehouse shelf to doorstep, and find…
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Audi tags paint atomisers with RFID on 28 Ingolstadt robots for demand-driven maintenance
Twenty-eight painting robots in Audi's new topcoat line at Ingolstadt now carry RFID on every atomiser component. Dürr and Kathrein Solutions developed transponders with bespoke antenna geometry that read reliably…
River Island Opens RFID Concept Store at centre:mk With Weight-Sensing Self-Checkout
River Island's new 12,800 sq ft store at centre:mk, opened on 28 September 2026, is billed as an RFID-driven concept. The chain has in fact run EPC UHF RFID across…
Keio, JRC and UPR prototype what they call the world’s first 920MHz hybrid active-passive RFID tag
Keio University SFC Research Institute, JRC and UPR have prototyped the DXh tag, which pairs the active 920 MHz radio in UPR's Smart Pallet with a battery-free ISO/IEC 18000-65 passive…
Medigas Italia Integrates UHF RFID Technology Into Home Ventilator Distribution
Loading a delivery van 20 minutes faster is what UHF RFID bought Medigas Italia, one of Italy's main home oxygen therapy providers. On-metal tags on its liquid oxygen containers and…
Zebra RFID lifts Spex warehouse picking efficiency 50%
Spex in Auckland has swapped three decades of paper picking sheets for Zebra UHF RAIN RFID handhelds and FX9600 fixed readers. One picking task fell from 15 minutes to five,…
Inditex, Tageos and JD Sports headline a packed day two at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026
An extra 150 delegates arrived for day two of RAIN in Action Madrid 2026, filling the room for a session that ran from RAIN Alliance awards to Inditex's 5,000 store-entrance…
Aileen Ryan to depart role as President and CEO of RAIN Alliance
Aileen Ryan will step down as President and CEO of the RAIN Alliance on 30 November 2026, four years after joining in October 2022. Membership doubled and RAIN tag IC…
JD Sports finishes Phase One RFID as McGrath sets sights on agentic commerce
Germany went live in September 2026, taking JD Sports to 1,000 stores directly launched on RFID in fourteen months. The harder number sits behind it: source tagging by brand partners…
