Dutch pig sector moves to replace paper slaughter records with RFID ear tags
Dutch pork, transport and meat sectors want the metal slaughter mark on pigs replaced by an RFID ear tag, reportedly by January 2027, now that the electric prod ban makes…
Ohio State University launched mobile BuckID NFC credentials in Apple and Samsung wallets
Ohio State University launched Mobile BuckID on 25 August 2026, putting its campus ID in Apple, Google and Samsung wallets for students, faculty and staff in Columbus. 11,100 people had…
Fossacesia tags 5,370 bins to bill households on residual waste from 2027
From 1 January 2027 Fossacesia in Abruzzo will bill 5,370 households and businesses on the residual waste they actually put out, using RFID tags on kerbside bins and sacks. Nearby…
FEIG uses UHF RFID to check fire appliance equipment is back on board
FEIG ELECTRONIC has set out how UHF RFID transponders on hoses, breathing sets and cutting tools let a fire appliance check its own load is complete before the next call.…
LOGISTEED Adds RFID to SCLINK+ for Construction Building Materials Tracking
Building materials data usually sits in scattered spreadsheets and PDFs. LOGISTEED is now feeding RFID tag reads into SCLINK+, its cloud supply chain platform, so contractors can see where materials…
Clinic Barcelona implements a pioneering material management system with RFID at their Cardiovascular Institute
Hospital Clinic Barcelona put RAIN RFID material tracking into the hemodynamics and arrhythmia rooms of its Cardiovascular Institute in September 2025, registering each device automatically and assigning it to the…
Controversy over microchips on surgical instruments at Poznań Provincial Hospital
Poznań Provincial Hospital tagged 12,500 surgical instruments with UHF RFID, then found chips detaching during sterilisation and turning up in patients' wounds. Several hundred tags were damaged in nine months,…
UK/NI dementia-safeguarding NFC Find My Loved One Expands across multiple councils
Lichfield District Council has funded 2,000 NFC identification devices for residents living with dementia, the largest order yet in a scheme now running across at least eight UK police forces…
Building an Internal RFID Centre of Excellence
Fragmented knowledge is what undermines mature RFID programmes: one team knows antennas, another knows middleware, and nobody sees the whole picture. A lean centre of excellence of three to six…
Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey cuts annual shrink from $1.49m to $154,000 with item-level RFID
Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia says item-level RFID cut its annual shrink from more than $1.49 million to about $154,000, on a $1.2 million investment it puts…
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