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Understanding RFID Frequencies: A Side-by-Side Comparison

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…

NXP Semiconductors Breaks Ground on Assembly and Test Site Expansion in Malaysia

NXP Semiconductors Breaks Ground on Assembly and Test Site Expansion in Malaysia

NXP has broken ground on a 500,000 square foot assembly and test expansion in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, taking the site to around 900,000 square feet and more than doubling its…

Avery Dennison ships the first UCODE X inlays – eight months from chip launch to a globally tuned inlay

Avery Dennison ships the first UCODE X inlays – eight months from chip launch to a globally tuned inlay

Eight months after NXP launched UCODE X, Avery Dennison has shipped ARC certified inlays built on it. The AD Miniweb Global UCODE X packs a 42 by 16 mm antenna…

Keonn and Impinj Cut Store Inventory Times Sevenfold with Gen2X Overhead RFID

Keonn and Impinj Cut Store Inventory Times Sevenfold with Gen2X Overhead RFID

Keonn's upgraded AdvanTrack-600 overhead readers, built on Impinj's E710 chip with Gen2X, cut back-of-store inventory time from nearly an hour to under eight minutes in a 9,000-item store test. We…

Inside the EU DPP Registry: What the New Rules Actually Mean for RFID

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…

Edgbaston Stadium’s achieve 98.79% return rate on cups in a UK First for cricket grounds.

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…

Decathlon AND Primark confirmed as speakers at RAIN in Action Madrid conference

Decathlon AND Primark confirmed as speakers at RAIN in Action Madrid conference

Decathlon and Primark will both go on record about their own RAIN RFID deployments at the RAIN in Action 2026 Retail Track in Madrid on 30 September. Tristan Finet and…

Case Study: Hoek Group adopt Reusable Flower Boxes

Case Study: Hoek Group adopt Reusable Flower Boxes

The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation became applicable across the bloc on 12 August, bringing with it a set of obligations that will push transport packaging steadily away from…

NCAA Plans RFID Baggage Tracking Across All Nigerian Airports

NCAA Plans RFID Baggage Tracking Across All Nigerian Airports

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has set out plans to introduce RFID baggage tracking at Nigerian airports, replacing barcode bag tags with radio frequency tags read automatically as luggage…

Bluebird launches world’s first enterprise-grade RFID Enabled handheld computer with AMOLED display

Bluebird launches world’s first enterprise-grade RFID Enabled handheld computer with AMOLED display

Bluebird, the enterprise mobility business of TSC Auto ID, has launched the X40, a rugged RFID handheld computer that the company says is the first enterprise-grade device to ship with…

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