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Matt Houldsworth

Over 3 decades of experience in RFID, High Risk/Value Asset Management, Inspection Systems, Brand Protection Technology, Customer engagement technology, WIP management, Logistics tracking, Digital Product Passports (DPP), and Digital Twinning linked to physical products with RFID. My Veribli Tech Makes Circular Economies Work!

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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…

Avery Dennison supply the NFC tag in Willem II’s 130th-anniversary jersey

Avery Dennison supply the NFC tag in Willem II’s 130th-anniversary jersey

Eredivisie side Willem II has put an NFC tag in every jersey for its 130th anniversary season, tapping fans straight into its new Tricolores+ platform. Avery Dennison supplied it, though…

Edgbaston Stadium’s achieve 98.79% return rate on cups in a UK First for cricket grounds.

Edgbaston Stadium’s achieve 98.79% return rate on cups in a UK First for cricket grounds.

Edgbaston Stadium got 98.79 per cent of its reusable cups back on a 20,000-guest match day, the first UK deployment of Aucxis's STAR RFID cup system and a first for…

Bahia public hospital tags 20,000 linen items with RFID, and Sesab plans a state-wide rollout

Bahia public hospital tags 20,000 linen items with RFID, and Sesab plans a state-wide rollout

Hospital Geral Clériston Andrade in Feira de Santana has chipped roughly 20,000 sheets, gowns and towels, giving Bahia's health secretariat item-level visibility of linen inside a free public hospital. The…

Decathlon AND Primark confirmed as speakers at RAIN in Action Madrid conference

Decathlon AND Primark confirmed as speakers at RAIN in Action Madrid conference

Decathlon and Primark will both go on record about their own RAIN RFID deployments at the RAIN in Action 2026 Retail Track in Madrid on 30 September. Tristan Finet and…

The Total Cost of NOT Implementing RFID

The Total Cost of NOT Implementing RFID

Barcode-only operations run at 65 to 75 per cent inventory accuracy, while RFID sites routinely sit above 95 per cent. That gap is stock you cannot sell, labour you keep…

Do RFID-blocking wallets actually do anything?

Do RFID-blocking wallets actually do anything?

RFID-blocking wallets really do block radio signals. The trouble is the crime they exist to stop barely happens in Britain. Here is what the UK fraud figures actually show, what…

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