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The Barcode Warehouse adds MishiPay’s RFID and scan-and-go checkout to UK retail portfolio

The Barcode Warehouse adds MishiPay’s RFID and scan-and-go checkout to UK retail portfolio

The Barcode Warehouse has added MishiPay's cloud checkout platform to its UK range, bringing RFID-enabled checkout, scan-and-go and self-checkout kiosks to the Newark reseller's portfolio. No UK retailer has signed…

RFID News weekly digest, 29 October 2026

Thursday's email in full, now open to everyone: 14 stories, led by Interview: Gary Moskovciak on the RFID Business Case and the Limits of Cheaper Tags.

Madhya Pradesh trials AI checkgates in Morena days before RFID tag deadline for mining trucks

Madhya Pradesh trials AI checkgates in Morena days before RFID tag deadline for mining trucks

Madhya Pradesh has given mineral hauliers until about 6 November 2026 to fit a radio frequency tag, but in Morena two AI checkgates and a 45 metre surveillance tower only…

Argentine polo mallet maker Logi Polo tracks every handmade mallet with RFID

Argentine polo mallet maker Logi Polo tracks every handmade mallet with RFID

An Argentine workshop of around 20 people has put an RFID chip in every polo mallet it makes, tied to the customer order and read at each bench as the…

Korean shops get NFC stickers that call police with a phone tap for lone female shopkeepers

Korean shops get NFC stickers that call police with a phone tap for lone female shopkeepers

SEMAS has put NFC smart safety tags on the counters of 75 shops in two Daejeon alley trading districts, letting a shopkeeper tap a phone to reach the 112 police…

RFID does not equal UHF: the whole family, and why the confusion costs buyers

RFID does not equal UHF: the whole family, and why the confusion costs buyers

RFID is a family of technologies, and the industry now uses the word to mean just one of them. LF at 125 and 134.2 kHz, HF and NFC at 13.56…

Poznan hospital director resigns as the region names RFID instrument tracking among its reasons for inspections

Poznan hospital director resigns as the region names RFID instrument tracking among its reasons for inspections

Prof. Dawid Murawa resigned as director of Poznan's Wielkopolska Provincial Hospital on 30 October 2026, blaming the national health fund and the region that owns the hospital. He never mentioned…

Clustag launches COS Tunnel, an RFID tunnel built to fit over existing conveyors

Clustag launches COS Tunnel, an RFID tunnel built to fit over existing conveyors

Most RFID tunnel projects need their own section of conveyor, which means line changes and downtime. Clustag's COS Tunnel, shown at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026 in September, is built…

How to Present RFID to Your Board: A Guide for Champions

How to Present RFID to Your Board: A Guide for Champions

A board will not engage with antenna polarisation, but it will engage with 2.4 million pounds of lost sales from phantom out-of-stocks. Winning approval for RFID means quantifying the pain…

South Korean Army tags rifles with RFID and locks them behind fingerprints in smart barracks push

South Korean Army tags rifles with RFID and locks them behind fingerprints in smart barracks push

A soldier at South Korea's 9th Infantry Division now presses a finger to a reader and one rifle, tagged with RFID, unlocks in the barracks bedroom. Three months earlier US…

Japanese drug wholesaler KSK swaps paper delivery slips for NFC card receipts in Hitachi rollout

Japanese drug wholesaler KSK swaps paper delivery slips for NFC card receipts in Hitachi rollout

From November 2026, drivers at Osaka drug wholesaler KSK will take receipt of medicine deliveries by reading a pharmacy or hospital's NFC card with a smartphone, instead of a paper…