Understanding RFID Frequencies: A Side-by-Side Comparison
LF reads through water and metal at 10 centimetres, UHF reaches 12 metres but struggles near liquids, and HF sits in between, powering payment cards and NFC. A side-by-side comparison…
SATO PJM RFID Powers Singapore’s National Blood Supply Management System
Singapore's Health Sciences Authority has taken its Next-Generation Blood Supply Management System live across every public and private hospital blood bank laboratory in the country. CADI Scientific won the tender,…
Inside the EU DPP Registry: What the New Rules Actually Mean for RFID
The EU Digital Product Passport Registry has been live since 20 July and its operating rules took effect on 6 August, yet nobody can register the first mandated passport because…
University of Wyoming Libraries: 2M Items RFID-Tagged Across 6 Locations Including Grand Teton National Park
The University of Wyoming Libraries has tagged 2 million items with RFID across six locations, replacing a manual inventory process that previously took around five years to complete. The project…
West Ham United NFC Digital Tickets Live
West Ham United has refreshed its matchday guidance for supporters entering London Stadium, and the instruction is now a simple one: find the pass in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet,…
Case Study: Singapore’s National Library Board – RFID at National Scale
When Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB) began tagging millions of library items with RFID in 2002, it became one of the earliest and most ambitious national-scale RFID deployments anywhere in…
Swine RFID Program Boosts Disease Preparedness
The National Pork Board is handing RFID readers to the people who see the most pig traffic in a year. Swine exhibition sites, state pork associations and Extension programmes holding…
RFID and GS1 Standards: Why Global Data Standards Matter
Every RFID tag carries a unique identifier, but without a common language to interpret that data, the information is only useful within a single organisation. This is exactly the problem…
What is HF RFID? The 13.56 MHz Sweet Spot
High Frequency (HF) RFID operates at 13.56 MHz, a globally licence-free band that has become the backbone of billions of contactless transactions every day. Sitting between the short reach of…
EU Regulations Mandating RFID Microchip Identification for Dogs and Cats Formally Approved
The European Parliament has formally approved the first-ever EU-wide regulations mandating RFID microchip identification for all dogs and cats across member states. The landmark vote, held on Tuesday 28 April…
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