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Patent office finds core claims of RFID consumable-tagging patent unpatentable
Paying more for access control that doesn’t work: Gurugram residents protest over failed RFID gates
Worcestershire libraries RFID self-service saves £300,000 in staff costs
7,500 endangered snuffbox mussels stocked in Clinton and Huron rivers and Cass Lake
Vietnam hospital tracks every gown’s wash count with RFID in Japanese-funded laundry
Patent office finds core claims of RFID consumable-tagging patent unpatentable
A Stratasys patent on reading an RFID tag to authenticate 3D printing filament is being unpicked at the US patent office, and its specification openly calls the mechanism digital rights…
Paying more for access control that doesn’t work: Gurugram residents protest over failed RFID gates
Maintenance charges at a 900-plot Gurugram township rose about 90 per cent in two years, from Rs 10 to Rs 19 per square yard a month. Residents say the RFID…
Worcestershire libraries RFID self-service saves £300,000 in staff costs
Eleven of Worcestershire's libraries now open 8am to 8pm without staff on site, and the council says that has saved more than £300,000 in wages. The kit behind it is…
7,500 endangered snuffbox mussels stocked in Clinton and Huron rivers and Cass Lake
Michigan stocked about 7,500 captive-reared snuffbox mussels into the Huron River, the Clinton River and Cass Lake in September 2026. One thousand carry PIT tags, another thousand carry glued numbered…
Vietnam hospital tracks every gown’s wash count with RFID in Japanese-funded laundry
Le Van Thinh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has processed 72.6 tonnes of linen across more than 3,170 wash batches since June 2025, with RFID counting every cycle each…
RFID Project Governance: Keeping a Multi-Stakeholder Deployment on Track
IT owns the network, operations owns the process, procurement owns supplier compliance: without clear governance, a multi-stakeholder RFID programme drifts. Why accountability must sit with a single operational leader, how…
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…
