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What the hard plastic tag on clothes actually does
Tanzanian gold mine cuts asset losses 73% with RFID, repaid in 11 months
Dutch pig sector moves to replace paper slaughter records with RFID ear tags
Ohio State University launched mobile BuckID NFC credentials in Apple and Samsung wallets
Fossacesia tags 5,370 bins to bill households on residual waste from 2027
What the hard plastic tag on clothes actually does
It has no battery, no serial number and, in almost every case, no ink. Here is what is really inside a clothes security tag, why the pin will not pull…
Tanzanian gold mine cuts asset losses 73% with RFID, repaid in 11 months
An unnamed Tanzanian gold mine tagged more than 2,000 movable assets with passive UHF RFID and reported a 73% drop in equipment losses over 12 months of operation. Gate alarms…
Dutch pig sector moves to replace paper slaughter records with RFID ear tags
Dutch pork, transport and meat sectors want the metal slaughter mark on pigs replaced by an RFID ear tag, reportedly by January 2027, now that the electric prod ban makes…
Ohio State University launched mobile BuckID NFC credentials in Apple and Samsung wallets
Ohio State University launched Mobile BuckID on 25 August 2026, putting its campus ID in Apple, Google and Samsung wallets for students, faculty and staff in Columbus. 11,100 people had…
Fossacesia tags 5,370 bins to bill households on residual waste from 2027
From 1 January 2027 Fossacesia in Abruzzo will bill 5,370 households and businesses on the residual waste they actually put out, using RFID tags on kerbside bins and sacks. Nearby…
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
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
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
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
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…
