RFID in Tyres has taken 10 years, but is now the time it breaks through?
A TikTok of a Michelin Pilot Sport 4S sidewall passed 17,600 views in January 2026 and the first assumption was surveillance. Michelin has been tagging tyres for a decade, roughly…
Burkina Faso puts RFID identifiers in the rumen of 300,000 cattle to fight livestock theft
Burkina Faso launched a campaign on 19 September 2026 to identify 300,000 cattle with electronic identifiers placed in the rumen, read by handheld readers to prove who owns a recovered…
Worcestershire libraries RFID self-service saves £300,000 in staff costs
Eleven of Worcestershire's libraries now open 8am to 8pm without staff on site, and the council says that has saved more than £300,000 in wages. The kit behind it is…
7,500 endangered snuffbox mussels stocked in Clinton and Huron rivers and Cass Lake
Michigan stocked about 7,500 captive-reared snuffbox mussels into the Huron River, the Clinton River and Cass Lake in September 2026. One thousand carry PIT tags, another thousand carry glued numbered…
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Audi tags paint atomisers with RFID on 28 Ingolstadt robots for demand-driven maintenance
Twenty-eight painting robots in Audi's new topcoat line at Ingolstadt now carry RFID on every atomiser component. Dürr and Kathrein Solutions developed transponders with bespoke antenna geometry that read reliably…
Keio, JRC and UPR prototype what they call the world’s first 920MHz hybrid active-passive RFID tag
Keio University SFC Research Institute, JRC and UPR have prototyped the DXh tag, which pairs the active 920 MHz radio in UPR's Smart Pallet with a battery-free ISO/IEC 18000-65 passive…
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,…
Bovine EID tags available in Northern Ireland from 7 September – DAERA
From 7 September 2026 Northern Ireland becomes the first UK region to offer electronic ID tags for cattle, on a voluntary basis. The low frequency tags cost about GBP 1.50…
51,000 labels by hand: Stadtbücherei Pirmasens completes its barcode to RFID migration
Stadtbücherei Pirmasens has completed its move from barcode to RFID, buying 51,000 transponder labels and gluing one into every book with volunteer help over 18 months. The roughly EUR 63,000…
Walmart Ends Decade-Long NFC Resistance with Apple Pay and Google Pay Now Accepted
Walmart begins accepting Apple Pay, Google Pay and contactless cards at select US stores and Sam's Club locations on 24 August 2026, with every US store covered by year end…
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