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…
San Diego’s RFID bin programme: 231,178 tagged carts, and reading them is still a pilot
San Diego's Environmental Services Department has now delivered 231,178 RFID-tagged gray trash bins and pulled 257,508 old black ones, part of a 750,000-bin replacement. The tags went in for billing…
Fairfax County Public Schools “tap-to-ride” scheme launched
Fairfax County Public Schools has issued tap-to-ride ID cards to every one of its 130,000 students, logging boardings across roughly 45,000 stops. FFX Now broke the rollout, but neither it…
Interview: Stefan Genser on NFC and the Future of Healthcare
The NFC Forum has launched a dedicated Healthcare Special Interest Group. In the first RFID News interview, its chair Stefan Genser talks tap-to-access care, the US$30.5 billion counterfeit medicine problem,…
Walmart Ends Decade-Long NFC Resistance with Apple Pay and Google Pay Now Accepted
Walmart begins accepting Apple Pay, Google Pay and contactless cards at select US stores and Sam's Club locations on 24 August 2026, with every US store covered by year end…
Case Study: Southern Fried Cotton – 98% Reduction in Chargebacks with RFID
A two-second portal read at the packing station cut chargebacks by 98 per cent for Southern Fried Cotton, a small apparel brand with no dedicated IT department. Item-level EPC encoding…
Incora slashes inventory search time by >95% with Zebra and Xemelgo RFID
Incora has cut the time its staff spend locating missing stock by more than 95% at its Jonestown distribution centre, using Zebra ATR7000 overhead RTLS readers, FX9600 fixed readers and…
RFID for Loss Prevention: Beyond the Traditional Security Tag
Traditional EAS tags either trigger an alarm or they do not, and generate no data either way. Serialised UHF RFID tracks every item from the back door to the exit,…
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
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…
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