RFID tags survive months of outdoor drying in Catalan timber traceability trial
Fifty-five logs, each carrying a chip driven into the wood with a modified axe, sat in a Catalan sawmill yard through months of outdoor drying. Afterwards 48 of the 55…
ARG-US active RFID gains AI seals and digital twin leak detection for nuclear material packages
Argonne National Laboratory's ARG-US system, first presented in 2009, monitors nuclear material packages with 433 MHz active tags carrying radiation, seal, temperature, humidity and shock sensors. Three advances published in…
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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…
The NFC Forum shortlisted ten finalists for 2026 Innovation Awards
The NFC Forum's 2026 Innovation Awards shortlist has no payment or ticketing product on it. The ten finalists cover a battery-free industrial lockout device powered by the reader field, a…
RFID Tag Costs: Where Are We in 2026 and Where Are We Heading?
Passive UHF inlays now sell for 4 to 8 cents, and 50-million-unit buyers are negotiating towards 2 cents. Chip die shrinks from Impinj and NXP keep pushing prices down, yet…
When to Bring in an Independent RFID Consultant
Vendor-authored specifications are written to favour the vendor's own systems, and the cost of that bias surfaces later in change orders and lock-in. From writing technology-neutral tenders to rescuing stalled…
Massachusetts student wins award for developing printable, chipless RFID tag
Kevin Sun, 17, has won a $10,000 innovation award at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for a chipless RFID tag printed directly onto plastic packaging. Made from conductive…
MIA Teknoloji Completes RFID-Based Biometric Identity R&D Project
Turkish technology company MIA Teknoloji has completed a research and development project that stores biometric facial data directly on RFID identity cards, verifying a cardholder against the credential in their…
Case Study: Ferrari Sports Management’s hybrid power unit RFID bearing temperature sensing
A battery-free RAIN RFID temperature sensor has been used to measure bearing temperature inside a sealed, rotating Formula 1 electric motor, a measurement point that conventional wired and optical instrumentation…
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