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FEIG uses UHF RFID to check fire appliance equipment is back on board

FEIG uses UHF RFID to check fire appliance equipment is back on board

FEIG ELECTRONIC has set out how UHF RFID transponders on hoses, breathing sets and cutting tools let a fire appliance check its own load is complete before the next call.…

LOGISTEED Adds RFID to SCLINK+ for Construction Building Materials Tracking

LOGISTEED Adds RFID to SCLINK+ for Construction Building Materials Tracking

Building materials data usually sits in scattered spreadsheets and PDFs. LOGISTEED is now feeding RFID tag reads into SCLINK+, its cloud supply chain platform, so contractors can see where materials…

Clinic Barcelona implements a pioneering material management system with RFID at their Cardiovascular Institute

Clinic Barcelona implements a pioneering material management system with RFID at their Cardiovascular Institute

Hospital Clinic Barcelona put RAIN RFID material tracking into the hemodynamics and arrhythmia rooms of its Cardiovascular Institute in September 2025, registering each device automatically and assigning it to the…

Controversy over microchips on surgical instruments at Poznań Provincial Hospital

Controversy over microchips on surgical instruments at Poznań Provincial Hospital

Poznań Provincial Hospital tagged 12,500 surgical instruments with UHF RFID, then found chips detaching during sterilisation and turning up in patients' wounds. Several hundred tags were damaged in nine months,…

UK/NI dementia-safeguarding NFC Find My Loved One Expands across multiple councils

UK/NI dementia-safeguarding NFC Find My Loved One Expands across multiple councils

Lichfield District Council has funded 2,000 NFC identification devices for residents living with dementia, the largest order yet in a scheme now running across at least eight UK police forces…

Building an Internal RFID Centre of Excellence

Building an Internal RFID Centre of Excellence

Fragmented knowledge is what undermines mature RFID programmes: one team knows antennas, another knows middleware, and nobody sees the whole picture. A lean centre of excellence of three to six…

The PPWR blind spot: why your RFID tag is now the weakest link in your compliance chain

The PPWR blind spot: why your RFID tag is now the weakest link in your compliance chain

Under the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation the tag is a packaging component, not a tracking tool. If its antenna is a continuous sheet of metal, the technical file…

Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey cuts annual shrink from $1.49m to $154,000 with item-level RFID

Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey cuts annual shrink from $1.49m to $154,000 with item-level RFID

Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia says item-level RFID cut its annual shrink from more than $1.49 million to about $154,000, on a $1.2 million investment it puts…

Bovine EID tags available in Northern Ireland from 7 September – DAERA

Bovine EID tags available in Northern Ireland from 7 September – DAERA

From 7 September 2026 Northern Ireland becomes the first UK region to offer electronic ID tags for cattle, on a voluntary basis. The low frequency tags cost about GBP 1.50…

Dyson Puts an RFID Tag in Every Brush Head of Its CameraJet Toothbrush

Dyson Puts an RFID Tag in Every Brush Head of Its CameraJet Toothbrush

Every brush head on the Dyson CameraJet, the company's first electric toothbrush, carries an RFID tag that counts cleaning sessions and tells the handle which head is fitted. Launched on…