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Edgbaston’s RFID cups win RFID Project of the Year, with a 95.7% return rate across the season
Chainway fixed RFID readers are tracking production coils in a Michelin UK plant pilot
Turkey targets 43 free-flow toll stations by December 2026
RFID Tag Application Methods: Manual, Semi-Auto, and Fully Automated
Kathrein RFID readers power free-flow tolling on São Paulo’s Rodoanel Norte ring road
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Edgbaston’s RFID cups win RFID Project of the Year, with a 95.7% return rate across the season
Edgbaston Stadium and Levy have taken RFID Project of the Year at the 2026 RTIH Innovation Awards for their tagged reusable cup system. The award write-up puts the return rate…
RFID News weekly digest, 5 November 2026
Thursday's email in full, now open to everyone: 31 stories, led by Prada’s NFC tags move beyond authentication to supply-chain traceability.
Chainway fixed RFID readers are tracking production coils in a Michelin UK plant pilot
Fixed UHF readers from Chainway now identify coils of production material automatically at winding and unwinding stations in a Michelin UK tyre plant, replacing manual records and MES keying. The…
Turkey targets 43 free-flow toll stations by December 2026
Turkey's highways authority KGM is converting eight more toll stations, including Çeşme, Mersin and Suruç, to barrier-free free-flow tolling by December 2026, taking the total to 43 of 106. HGS…
RFID Tag Application Methods: Manual, Semi-Auto, and Fully Automated
A trained operator can apply 400 to 600 RFID labels an hour; an automated print-and-apply line can tag items faster than most production lines can feed it. Choosing between manual,…
Kathrein RFID readers power free-flow tolling on São Paulo’s Rodoanel Norte ring road
Kathrein Solutions' RRU 7800 readers and WideRange 40 degree PRO antennas identify vehicles at highway speed on the Rodoanel Norte, the 44 km northern arc of São Paulo's ring road,…
Case Study: The South African Retailer That Couldn’t Make RFID Stick
A 120-store South African fashion chain spent heavily on RFID between 2018 and 2020, targeting a jump from 64 per cent inventory accuracy to above 90, and mothballed the system…
What the gates at shop doors actually detect
They cannot tell what you are carrying or whether you paid. Inside the two technologies in those grey pedestals, why a forgotten label beeps three shops later, the foil bag…
Corny bar maker Schwartauer Werke automates workwear issue with ACG Pulse RFID
Schwartauer Werke, maker of Schwartau jams and Corny bars, has swapped manual workwear handouts for pooled rental from Elis and an RFID gate from ACG Pulse that logs issue and…
Japanese recycler uses UHF RFID to stop power-tool batteries reaching the shredder
A recycler in Chiba Prefecture strips washing machines by hand, then crushes the parts whole. Maspro Denkoh fitted a circularly polarised UHF antenna at the shredder infeed: if a tagged…
How does Zara’s self-checkout work?
Put a pile of clothes on a Zara self-checkout and every item appears at once, with no barcodes and no unfolding. The tag doing that work is a battery-free radio…
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