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Understanding RFID Frequencies: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Understanding RFID Frequencies: A Side-by-Side Comparison

LF reads through water and metal at 10 centimetres, UHF reaches 12 metres but struggles near liquids, and HF sits in between, powering payment cards and NFC. A side-by-side comparison…

Fashion designer Yuima Nakazato showcases an NFC powered photo book at Paris Haute Couture Week 2026

Fashion designer Yuima Nakazato showcases an NFC powered photo book at Paris Haute Couture Week 2026

Murata supplied the NFC tags for a limited edition photobook given to guests at Yuima Nakazato's Paris Haute Couture Week 2026 show. A tap of a phone on the 13.56…

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

The RAIN Alliance has launched a working group for sensor-enabled RAIN RFID, chaired by Sara Amendola of Radio6ense, covering temperature, humidity, moisture, pressure, strain and freshness sensing. Battery-free tags put…

NXP Semiconductors Breaks Ground on Assembly and Test Site Expansion in Malaysia

NXP Semiconductors Breaks Ground on Assembly and Test Site Expansion in Malaysia

NXP has broken ground on a 500,000 square foot assembly and test expansion in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, taking the site to around 900,000 square feet and more than doubling its…

SATO PJM RFID Powers Singapore’s National Blood Supply Management System

SATO PJM RFID Powers Singapore’s National Blood Supply Management System

Singapore's Health Sciences Authority has taken its Next-Generation Blood Supply Management System live across every public and private hospital blood bank laboratory in the country. CADI Scientific won the tender,…

Avery Dennison ships the first UCODE X inlays – eight months from chip launch to a globally tuned inlay

Avery Dennison ships the first UCODE X inlays – eight months from chip launch to a globally tuned inlay

Eight months after NXP launched UCODE X, Avery Dennison has shipped ARC certified inlays built on it. The AD Miniweb Global UCODE X packs a 42 by 16 mm antenna…

Keonn and Impinj Cut Store Inventory Times Sevenfold with Gen2X Overhead RFID

Keonn and Impinj Cut Store Inventory Times Sevenfold with Gen2X Overhead RFID

Keonn's upgraded AdvanTrack-600 overhead readers, built on Impinj's E710 chip with Gen2X, cut back-of-store inventory time from nearly an hour to under eight minutes in a 9,000-item store test. We…

Massachusetts student wins award for developing printable, chipless RFID tag

Massachusetts student wins award for developing printable, chipless RFID tag

Kevin Sun, 17, has won a $10,000 innovation award at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for a chipless RFID tag printed directly onto plastic packaging. Made from conductive…

Inside the EU DPP Registry: What the New Rules Actually Mean for RFID

Inside the EU DPP Registry: What the New Rules Actually Mean for RFID

The EU Digital Product Passport Registry has been live since 20 July and its operating rules took effect on 6 August, yet nobody can register the first mandated passport because…

RFID and Returns Management: Turning a Cost Centre Into Insight

RFID and Returns Management: Turning a Cost Centre Into Insight

A returned item can be back on a pick list within hours rather than sitting in a queue for days when fixed readers automate returns intake. Serialised UHF tags also…