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Bpost Uses RFID For Real-Time Visibility Across 93,000 Roll Containers, Reducing New Container Purchases by 85%

Bpost Uses RFID For Real-Time Visibility Across 93,000 Roll Containers, Reducing New Container Purchases by 85%

Every one of the 93,000 roll containers in bpost's Belgian parcel network now carries a tag combining passive UHF RFID and Bluetooth Low Energy. The postal operator has cut its…

Railway Safety Gets A Boost with RFID Powered Kavach 4.0 Commissioned On South Central Railway

Railway Safety Gets A Boost with RFID Powered Kavach 4.0 Commissioned On South Central Railway

Indian Railways has commissioned Kavach 4.0 on South Central Railway for the first time, covering 108 route kilometres between Malkajgiri and Kamareddi in September 2026. Three further Kavach sections went…

Gumi City Adds RFID Check-In and Rollover Detection to Its Farm Machinery Rental Fleet

Gumi City Adds RFID Check-In and Rollover Detection to Its Farm Machinery Rental Fleet

Gumi City in South Korea will automate check-in and check-out of its municipal farm machinery rental fleet with RFID, alongside unmanned payment kiosks and IoT rollover detection fitted to the…

Six years of RFID tags now carry C&A’s whole store format

Six years of RFID tags now carry C&A’s whole store format

C&A Brasil tagged its first store in June 2020 and reached 100 RFID stores by September 2021. The Energia format it began rolling out in 2025 puts self-checkout, in-store product…

How to Run a Successful RFID Proof of Value (Not Just a Proof of Concept)

How to Run a Successful RFID Proof of Value (Not Just a Proof of Concept)

Pilots that prove readers work but never quantify the labour saved are why so many RFID projects stall after the trial. A proof of value tests the technology inside a…

Interview: Aileen Ryan on the 2025 correction, grocery, and RAIN-enabled smartphones

Interview: Aileen Ryan on the 2025 correction, grocery, and RAIN-enabled smartphones

RAIN chip shipments fell from 52.8 billion in 2024 to 42.7 billion in 2025. RAIN Alliance CEO Aileen Ryan calls it a blip against four years of roughly 50% growth,…

Islamic Civilization Center, Tashkent: 200,000-tag RFID library build with Bibliotheca and SmartLibrary

Islamic Civilization Center, Tashkent: 200,000-tag RFID library build with Bibliotheca and SmartLibrary

A library fit-out at the Islamic Civilization Center in Tashkent has put 200,000 RFID tags into one collection. Bibliotheca and its Central Asian partner SmartLibrary supplied self-service kiosks, security gates,…

Automation cuts stocktaking from 14 days to 30 minutes for Grupo Asia Shipping

Automation cuts stocktaking from 14 days to 30 minutes for Grupo Asia Shipping

A warehouse stocktake that once took up to 14 days at Grupo Asia Shipping in Brazil now finishes in about 30 minutes. Cargo checking has dropped from two hours to…

Suntory cuts spare parts stocktaking from 57 hours to 2 with SATO RFID

Suntory cuts spare parts stocktaking from 57 hours to 2 with SATO RFID

Tagging about 24,000 equipment spare parts with RFID took a stocktake at Suntory's Kita Alps natural water plant from 20 people and 57 hours to one person and two hours.…

Barcelona trials NFC wristbands and keyrings as discreet alarm triggers at La Mercè 2026

Barcelona trials NFC wristbands and keyrings as discreet alarm triggers at La Mercè 2026

Barcelona is handing out 1,500 NFC wristbands and 1,500 NFC keyrings at La Mercè 2026, letting someone tap their own phone to raise a discreet alarm routed to a coordinator…