When RFID Projects Fail: Five Common Patterns and How to Avoid Them
The hardware almost never causes an RFID project to fail; the business case does. Five patterns account for most failures, starting with plans built around reader counts instead of measurable…
Costa Rica’s RFID cattle-tag deadline hits trade as southern auction gets 27% of usual cattle
Just 178 cattle arrived at a Perez Zeledon auction on 27 October 2026 instead of the usual 650, the first day Costa Rica enforced its RFID ear-tag rule. Nationally 94.34%…
Dutch academic hospital tracks endoscopy equipment and patient samples with Kathrein RFID
An academic hospital in the Netherlands put RFID readers above doors, inside cabinets and beside the lifts to track endoscopy equipment, then reused the same estate to follow patient samples…
Beontag puts NFC behind Bulgari’s connected luxury experience
Beontag's case library carries a Bulgari project in which an NFC tag sits hidden under the logo, giving each piece a digital channel that lasts the product's life. The case…
RFID stickers at the pump allow Bolivia’s fuel regulator to go after subsidy fraud under government takeover
Bolivia's fuel regulator ANH had blocked 10,781 vehicle plates for repeat refuelling by 18 October 2026, killing their RFID windscreen stickers at the pump. The B-SISA system is ten years…
Premier Inn puts NFC room keys in Apple and Google wallets across 97,000 rooms
hub by Premier Inn has started putting NFC room keys into Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, the first phase of a Whitbread programme covering over 97,000 rooms across more than…
Honduras starts handing out Tönnjes RFID plates on 4 November to clear million-vehicle backlog
Honduras has had more than 1.1 million vehicles on paper permits since May 2023. From 4 November 2026 the Instituto de la Propiedad starts issuing Tönnjes RFID plates to clear…
Japan’s RFID pallet-tracking platform TRAX GO reaches 1,000 firms and wins Good Design Award
Sanko Pallet Rental's TRAX GO platform, which tracks individual pallets using RFID tags and QR codes, reached 1,000 adopting companies in September 2026 and won a 2026 Good Design Award…
US Navy installs RFID asset tracking at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, first of four yards to go live in 2027
Norfolk Naval Shipyard is the first of the US Navy's four public shipyards to install NADACS, a passive RFID and GPS sensor mesh system that tracks tools and material across…
Delhi’s RFID border tolls go free-flow, eight years after the first tags
Delhi is fitting multi-lane free-flow tolling at 20 border toll points, 12 on national highways, with RFID, number-plate cameras and radar reading lorries at up to 100 km/h. It lands…
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