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…
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…
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…
Choosing RFID Software: Build vs Buy vs Configure
Custom RFID software typically takes six to eighteen months to build, and five-year ownership costs run three to five times the initial estimate. Off-the-shelf platforms deliver value in days but…
Bellaire library tags nearly 100,000 books in four months
Bellaire City Library in Texas tagged close to 100,000 books in four months, against an original estimate of nine months to a year. The shortcut was circulation itself: staff tagged…
Rems-Murr fits 390,000 wheelie bins with RFID chips and retires the waste sticker from 2027
Abfallwirtschaft Rems-Murr has fitted RFID chips to around 390,000 wheelie bins and 9,000 containers across 31 municipalities, with c-trace GmbH carrying out the work. It scraps roughly 250,000 fee stickers…
Incora adds RFID to TCMIS, cutting chemical cabinet scanning cost by 97%
Incora reports a 97% cut in cabinet scanning cost after adding RFID to its Total Chemical Management Information System, with the technology already running on an active aerospace production line.…
Renegade Materials automates out-of-freezer tracking for aerospace prepreg with RFID
Aerospace composites manufacturer Renegade Materials has automated its out-of-freezer records with RAIN RFID from Xemelgo, using Impinj R700 and Speedway R420 portal readers plus Zebra encoding and handheld kit. Xemelgo…
Gerald R. Ford International Airport switches on RFID-tracked tote baggage handling
Gerald R. Ford International Airport has opened a $135 million terminal expansion built around a baggage system that moves every checked bag in its own RFID-enabled tote, lifting capacity from…
Aligarh municipal commissioner to install RFID tags and QR codes on 260,000 buildings across the city
Aligarh Municipal Corporation plans to tag around 260,000 buildings across its 90 wards so property tax, user charges and fines sit on one digital record. The announcement is billed as…
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