RFID fridges replace the canteen: DoDo founder buys a quarter of Czech firm Eat Smart
Eat Smart runs more than a hundred RFID fridges across Czechia and sells about 50,000 tagged meal boxes a month, charging the customer when the door shuts. On 26 October…
Prada’s NFC tags move beyond authentication to supply-chain traceability
Every garment in Prada's Re-Cashmere and Re-Wool lines, on sale from October 2026, carries a 13.56 MHz NFC tag linked to the Aura blockchain. The tap no longer just proves…
RFID in Food and Beverage: Traceability From Farm to Fork
When a food recall hits, barcode-based traceability means days of cross-referencing paper manifests; RFID cuts the query to minutes. With the EU Farm to Fork strategy and the US Food…
British Vets hail launch of centralised pet microchip portal
Five of the UK's 20-plus pet microchip databases can be searched in one place, free to vet practices, rescues, police and councils. The Association of Microchip Database Operators launched phase…
Easemotion cuts work in process 30% with RFID on its activewear conveyor
Activewear maker Easemotion says RFID on its overhead garment conveyor, tied into its MES, has cut work in process inventory by 30% and shortened order cycles by 25% at its…
SparkLink shows a passive sensing interface and claims it beats RFID: here’s what the claim actually measures
A battery-free temperature sensing tag shown in Shenzhen in October 2026 is claimed to respond 100 times faster than RFID, at 0.3 to 0.4 milliseconds and 3,000 tags a second.…
RAIN Alliance accepted as ISO/IEC JTC 5 liaison on Digital Product Passport standards
RAIN Alliance has been accepted as a liaison to ISO/IEC JTC 5, the DIN-run committee writing international Digital Product Passport standards. Passive UHF RFID is already one of the carrier…
Kroger investor deck: RFID in bakery at 1,500 stores today, 2,300+ by 2029, with sales lifted
Kroger has RFID in the bakery department of roughly 1,500 stores as of October 2026 and wants it in more than 2,300 stores by 2029. Bakery is reporting around 50…
RFID Printing and Encoding: How Tags Are Made at Scale
Thousands of tags per hour move through a modern RFID label converter, each laminated, printed, encoded and verified before it ships. From wet inlays on a reel to serialised, application-ready…
Interview: Gary Moskovciak on the RFID Business Case and the Limits of Cheaper Tags
SML Group Chief Commercial Officer Gary Moskovciak on what a retailer actually puts in an RFID business case, which number convinces a board, where programmes stall after approval, and why…
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