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The RFID Ecosystem Map: Understanding Who Does What
South Eastern Railway equips conventional locomotives with RFID Kavach safety system
Denbighshire Council launches greener staff travel support with RFID-controlled EV pool fleet
Interview: Lesley Suen on RFID at Scale and Identity at Source
NFC Forum Announces Winners for 2026 NFC Forum Innovation Awards
The RFID Ecosystem Map: Understanding Who Does What
Between the silicon foundry and the warehouse floor sits an entire supply chain of specialists: chip designers like Impinj and NXP, inlay makers running billions of units a year, converters,…
South Eastern Railway equips conventional locomotives with RFID Kavach safety system
South Eastern Railway commissioned Kavach on ten locomotives at its Kharagpur Electric Loco Shed between 25 July and 1 October 2026, with four more in hand, and separately fitted GS1…
Denbighshire Council launches greener staff travel support with RFID-controlled EV pool fleet
Denbighshire County Council has put bookable electric vans in Denbigh, St Asaph, Prestatyn and Llangollen, with RFID readers on the dashboards tying each trip to the member of staff who…
Interview: Lesley Suen on RFID at Scale and Identity at Source
SML connects more than 20 billion products for over 600 brands. Lesley Suen on what only breaks at that volume, embedding a tag that survives a garment, and whether a…
NFC Forum Announces Winners for 2026 NFC Forum Innovation Awards
A padlock that draws its power from the phone that unlocks it, a cooktop that talks to its own pans, and cattle records stored on the animal's tag rather than…
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly pathology cuts single-use plastic with Indexor RFID iRack sample transport
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust sent almost 780,000 plastic specimen bags a year to incineration before its Blood Sciences labs adopted Abbott's Indexor system. Reusable iRacks carrying an RFID tag…
ARG-US active RFID gains AI seals and digital twin leak detection for nuclear material packages
Argonne National Laboratory's ARG-US system, first presented in 2009, monitors nuclear material packages with 433 MHz active tags carrying radiation, seal, temperature, humidity and shock sensors. Three advances published in…
Melbourne Airport’s A$500 million baggage system puts an RFID tag on every tote
Melbourne Airport's A$500 million international baggage system lifts capacity from 1,800 to over 4,000 bags per hour. The airport says each bag is electronically paired to its tote, but the…
RFID and the Metaverse: Physical Products in Virtual Worlds
Scan a tagged handbag with your phone and your avatar can wear a verified digital twin of it. Luxury brands are already embedding NFC and UHF inlays as authentication keys…
RFID in Healthcare: Patient Safety, Asset Tracking, and Beyond
Closed-loop medication systems built on RFID wristbands have cut drug administration errors by more than 50 per cent in published studies. From tagged surgical sponges that prevent retained instruments to…
