Bovine EID tags available in Northern Ireland from 7 September – DAERA
From 7 September 2026 Northern Ireland becomes the first UK region to offer electronic ID tags for cattle, on a voluntary basis. The low frequency tags cost about GBP 1.50…
Dyson Puts an RFID Tag in Every Brush Head of Its CameraJet Toothbrush
Every brush head on the Dyson CameraJet, the company's first electric toothbrush, carries an RFID tag that counts cleaning sessions and tells the handle which head is fitted. Launched on…
The Walmart RFID mandate in 2026: what suppliers must do, who is exempt and what comes next
Walmart's item-level RFID programme now covers essentially all general merchandise, with compliance enforced through chargebacks in 2026. What the mandate actually requires, from ARC-approved inlays to GS1 serialisation, who is…
IDCRAFT launches IDSCOUT Encode, an NFC encoding station where the AI never writes
IDCRAFT has made its IDSCOUT Encode NFC encoding station generally available. An operator describes the job in plain language, a language model running locally on the device interprets it and…
Hospital Albert Einstein saves R$1.5m a year on linen with RFID
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo has saved R$1.5 million a year on linen control alone, with 120,000 textile pieces individually tagged and 500 rooms inventoried by RFID reading…
Kontich scraps bin bags as pay-by-weight waste collection begins
Kontich, south of Antwerp, dropped plastic refuse bags on 1 September 2026 and moved to chipped wheelie bins weighed on the lorry. Residents pay EUR 0.35 a kilo for residual…
Dutch frame maker Van de Vin cuts €30,000 a year in printing with embedded RFID dowels
Timber window and door frame manufacturer Van de Vin has replaced paper drawings on its factory floor with UHF RFID tags embedded in the frames themselves, in a deployment built…
RFID for SMEs: Is It Finally Affordable for Smaller Businesses?
Passive UHF inlays that cost 20 to 30 cents a few years ago now sell for 5 to 8 cents, and entry-level fixed readers have dropped under $500. Add cloud…
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