SBB reads rail vehicle IDs with RAIN RFID at 68 points up to 180 km/h
Swiss Federal Railways reads the ID of every passing rail vehicle at 68 trackside points, at anything from 5 to 180 km/h and through a Swiss winter. Kathrein RAIN RFID…
The RFID Ecosystem Map: Understanding Who Does What
Between the silicon foundry and the warehouse floor sits an entire supply chain of specialists: chip designers like Impinj and NXP, inlay makers running billions of units a year, converters,…
South Eastern Railway equips conventional locomotives with RFID Kavach safety system
South Eastern Railway commissioned Kavach on ten locomotives at its Kharagpur Electric Loco Shed between 25 July and 1 October 2026, with four more in hand, and separately fitted GS1…
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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…
Zebra RFID lifts Spex warehouse picking efficiency 50%
Spex in Auckland has swapped three decades of paper picking sheets for Zebra UHF RAIN RFID handhelds and FX9600 fixed readers. One picking task fell from 15 minutes to five,…
Zebra adds Impinj Gen2X across its RFID range as six makers put RAIN into mobiles
Impinj and Zebra Technologies are announcing today that Zebra is adding Gen2X support across its entire RFID range: the MC33 family, TC22R, TC501 and TC701 handhelds, the RFD40 and RFD90…
The 900 MHz question: what NextNav’s plan would mean for RAIN RFID worldwide
A US proposal would compress the 902 to 928 MHz band from 26 MHz to 11, and hand its top 10 MHz to a single operator. Two of Europe's four…
Railway Safety Gets A Boost with RFID Powered Kavach 4.0 Commissioned On South Central Railway
Indian Railways has commissioned Kavach 4.0 on South Central Railway for the first time, covering 108 route kilometres between Malkajgiri and Kamareddi in September 2026. Three further Kavach sections went…
H&M Checkout Transformation with Chainway SR160 RFID Scanner
Chainway says H&M cut checkout time by up to 80 per cent by replacing two counter scanners with one SR160, a handheld that reads UHF RFID tags and printed barcodes…
How RFID Anti-Collision Works: Reading Hundreds of Tags at Once
Hundreds of tags all wake and respond at once when a reader energises its field, and every reply collides. Anti-collision protocols, from Slotted Aloha to EPC Gen2's adaptive Q-algorithm, are…
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