The Physics of RFID: Backscatter, Coupling, and Energy Harvesting
Double the distance from a UHF reader and the power reaching a passive tag drops to a quarter; at HF it falls with the cube of the gap. Backscatter, inductive…
RFID in Healthcare: Patient Safety, Asset Tracking, and Beyond
Closed-loop medication systems built on RFID wristbands have cut drug administration errors by more than 50 per cent in published studies. From tagged surgical sponges that prevent retained instruments to…
ING Arena opts for smart reusable RFID cups with STAR
Brussels venue ING Arena has put an RFID tag in every reusable cup, linking it to the drinker's payment so the deposit refunds itself the moment the cup is handed…
OREA Rolls Out Apple Wallet and Google Wallet Hotel Keys
Guests at OREA Place Seno in Prague and OREA Resort Sklar can, as of September 2026, open their rooms with an NFC key held in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet,…
Mainzer Weinmarkt tracks reusable dishes by RFID through eight deposit return machines
Eight automated deposit return machines stood in the Mainz Stadtpark for the 2026 Mainzer Weinmarkt, reading an RFID chip in every plate and bowl to refund deposits and sort dishes…
RFID in Manufacturing: Tracking Work-in-Progress Across the Line
Fixed readers at cell entry and exit points give manufacturing execution systems live work-in-progress visibility without a single operator scan. On mixed-model lines, tags carry routing data that steers conveyors…
Edgbaston Stadium’s achieve 98.79% return rate on cups in a UK First for cricket grounds.
Edgbaston Stadium got 98.79 per cent of its reusable cups back on a 20,000-guest match day, the first UK deployment of Aucxis's STAR RFID cup system and a first for…
Spanish industrial laundry Limpink, uses customised RFID tag-on-label
Limpink, an industrial laundry based in Murcia, Spain, has adopted a customised RFID tag-on-label solution supplied by Datamars Textile ID, placing item-level identification inside the same label that carries the…
Case Study – Marriott International 150,000-tag RAIN RFID linen deployment
Counting linen is one of those hotel jobs nobody enjoys and everybody has to do. At three Marriott International luxury properties in China, it now takes roughly ten minutes instead…
Record Public Engagement at Beijing Art Season 2026 driven by RFID
Beijing Art Season 2026 has set a new benchmark for public engagement in the cultural sector, and organizers are pointing to a surprisingly simple innovation as a key driver: NFC-enabled…
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