NFC Forum Announces Winners for 2026 NFC Forum Innovation Awards
A padlock that draws its power from the phone that unlocks it, a cooktop that talks to its own pans, and cattle records stored on the animal's tag rather than…
Inditex, Tageos and JD Sports headline a packed day two at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026
An extra 150 delegates arrived for day two of RAIN in Action Madrid 2026, filling the room for a session that ran from RAIN Alliance awards to Inditex's 5,000 store-entrance…
Bpost Uses RFID For Real-Time Visibility Across 93,000 Roll Containers, Reducing New Container Purchases by 85%
Every one of the 93,000 roll containers in bpost's Belgian parcel network now carries a tag combining passive UHF RFID and Bluetooth Low Energy. The postal operator has cut its…
The NFC Forum shortlisted ten finalists for 2026 Innovation Awards
The NFC Forum's 2026 Innovation Awards shortlist has no payment or ticketing product on it. The ten finalists cover a battery-free industrial lockout device powered by the reader field, a…
Pragmatic Semiconductor wins RFID Product Gold Prize at IOTE 2026 for its flexible NFC portfolio
Pragmatic Semiconductor has taken the RFID Product Gold Prize at the IOTE 2026 Innovative Product Awards in Shenzhen for its flexible NFC chips, NFC Connect PR1301 and NFC Protect PR1311.…
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…
PulpaTronics co-founder Chloe So wins Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award
Chloe So, co-founder and chief executive of PulpaTronics, has been named a winner in Innovate UK’s 2026 Women in Innovation Awards, handing one of the UK’s more interesting sustainable RFID…
Behind-the-scenes at UPS and their implementation of RFID
UPS has announced a major milestone in its RFID rollout, confirming that passive UHF RFID sensing technology is now deployed across its entire U.S. small package network from end to…
Ma Balise wins Jury Special Mention at Packaging Première Milano Avant-garde Awards 2026
A compostable NFC label just earned one of packaging’s most prestigious nods. Ma Balise, the Belgian distributor behind the Ephem smart label brand, has received a Jury Special Mention at…
SML’s InfuseRFID Wins 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award
SML Group’s InfuseRFID embedded RFID technology has been recognised with the 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award, a notable achievement that validates the growing role of embedded UHF RFID in sustainable…
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