VR Group reads wagon RFID tags at 250km/h across Finland’s 5,900km rail network
Trackside Gen2 UHF RFID readers identify freight wagons at up to 250km/h across Finland's 5,900km rail network, with antennas rated to -45C. Turck Vilant Systems built the installation for VR…
Shanghai Tobacco Beijing factory runs end-to-end RFID from leaf to logistics on Seuic CRUISE2U 5G handhelds
Shanghai Tobacco Group's Beijing Cigarette Factory runs RFID at every stage from leaf sourcing to distribution, reporting order processing 30% faster, inventory counting efficiency up 50% and 99.8% data accuracy.…
Kreiswerke Barnim replaces paper waste-fee stickers with RFID-chipped bins
Barnimer Dienstleistungsgesellschaft fitted RFID transponders to roughly 183,000 wheeled bins across Landkreis Barnim in Brandenburg during 2023, and from 1 January 2024 it empties chipped containers only. The annual coloured…
Animate Moves to RFID-Based Store Operations: COO Jun Fujiki on ‘the First Step Toward Industry Reform’
Animate will fit PubteX's BOOKTRAIL RFID system across every one of its Japanese stores, targeting RFID-based store operations by April 2029. The tags arrive already inside the book, tucked in…
Aalborg Airport and Lyngsoe mark nearly 20 years of collaboration on digital baggage handling
Nearly 20 years of work between Aalborg Airport and Lyngsoe has turned baggage handling at the 1.6 million passenger Danish airport from a manual job into a fully automated one.…
ELIS España deploys Lavandercode RFID tracking across five laundry plants
Five ELIS España laundry plants are running LavanderCode's LavanderTrace RFID system, with every garment tagged and read through arches at reception, wash and despatch. The Madrid software house says it…
Asda completes electronic shelf label rollout across all UK Express stores
Asda has completed electronic shelf labels across all 517 UK Express stores, 1.2 million units for GBP 7.5 million, ending the weekly swap of 120,000 paper tickets. The VusionGroup labels…
Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust tracks 846 beds and 1,309 medical devices with active RFID
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust tags 1,309 medical devices, 846 of them beds, across its two acute hospitals and regularly locates 95% of them. Battery-powered active RFID tags report…
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,…
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