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RFID cabinets end missing tissue grafts at Kansas City hospital, TrackCore case study claims

RFID cabinets end missing tissue grafts at Kansas City hospital, TrackCore case study claims

North Kansas City Hospital was losing 10 or more pieces of human tissue a month, worth about $35,941 a year, before RAIN RFID cabinets went in. A Terso Solutions and…

GreyOrange buys Site Bionics to fuse store cameras with RFID

GreyOrange buys Site Bionics to fuse store cameras with RFID

GreyOrange has bought Site Bionics, whose software turns a store's existing security cameras into a live digital twin, and will fold it into gStore alongside item-level RFID. Terms were undisclosed.…

Madhya Pradesh mining trucks face 6 November RFID deadline, but early uptake is minimal

Madhya Pradesh mining trucks face 6 November RFID deadline, but early uptake is minimal

Gwalior district received 900 radio frequency tags for mineral transport vehicles and sold seven in the first two days. From 6 November 2026, any Madhya Pradesh truck without a windscreen…

Fukui turns to NFC tags to rebuild trust in Echizen crab after labelling scandal

Fukui turns to NFC tags to rebuild trust in Echizen crab after labelling scandal

Fukui Prefecture is fitting tags with an integrated circuit chip to male snow crabs of 1.1 kg or more from 6 November 2026, so a shopper can check the fisher…

RFID in Tyres has taken 10 years, but is now the time it breaks through?

RFID in Tyres has taken 10 years, but is now the time it breaks through?

A TikTok of a Michelin Pilot Sport 4S sidewall passed 17,600 views in January 2026 and the first assumption was surveillance. Michelin has been tagging tyres for a decade, roughly…

RFID in Fashion and Apparel: From Factory Floor to Fitting Room

RFID in Fashion and Apparel: From Factory Floor to Fitting Room

Source tagging at the factory, for roughly the cost of an upgraded care label, is why apparel leads the world in item-level RFID adoption. High SKU counts, rapid stock turn…

RFID and WMS Integration: A Technical Deep Dive

RFID and WMS Integration: A Technical Deep Dive

Portal readers at a dock door can verify an entire inbound shipment against the ASN in seconds, cutting receiving labour by as much as 90 per cent. A technical walk…

The Physics of RFID: Backscatter, Coupling, and Energy Harvesting

The Physics of RFID: Backscatter, Coupling, and Energy Harvesting

Double the distance from a UHF reader and the power reaching a passive tag drops to a quarter; at HF it falls with the cube of the gap. Backscatter, inductive…

Why airlines still lose your bag

Why airlines still lose your bag

Your suitcase is rarely lost. It is separated from its paperwork. Follow a bag through eleven miles of conveyor, find out why one tag in eight defeats the scanners, why…

Burkina Faso puts RFID identifiers in the rumen of 300,000 cattle to fight livestock theft

Burkina Faso puts RFID identifiers in the rumen of 300,000 cattle to fight livestock theft

Burkina Faso launched a campaign on 19 September 2026 to identify 300,000 cattle with electronic identifiers placed in the rumen, read by handheld readers to prove who owns a recovered…