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GreyOrange buys Site Bionics to fuse store cameras with RFID

GreyOrange buys Site Bionics to fuse store cameras with RFID

GreyOrange has bought Site Bionics, whose software turns a store's existing security cameras into a live digital twin, and will fold it into gStore alongside item-level RFID. Terms were undisclosed.…

Madhya Pradesh mining trucks face 6 November RFID deadline, but early uptake is minimal

Madhya Pradesh mining trucks face 6 November RFID deadline, but early uptake is minimal

Gwalior district received 900 radio frequency tags for mineral transport vehicles and sold seven in the first two days. From 6 November 2026, any Madhya Pradesh truck without a windscreen…

Burkina Faso puts RFID identifiers in the rumen of 300,000 cattle to fight livestock theft

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…

Patent office finds core claims of RFID consumable-tagging patent unpatentable

Patent office finds core claims of RFID consumable-tagging patent unpatentable

A Stratasys patent on reading an RFID tag to authenticate 3D printing filament is being unpicked at the US patent office, and its specification openly calls the mechanism digital rights…

Paying more for access control that doesn’t work: Gurugram residents protest over failed RFID gates

Paying more for access control that doesn’t work: Gurugram residents protest over failed RFID gates

Maintenance charges at a 900-plot Gurugram township rose about 90 per cent in two years, from Rs 10 to Rs 19 per square yard a month. Residents say the RFID…

ARG-US active RFID gains AI seals and digital twin leak detection for nuclear material packages

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…

RFID and the Metaverse: Physical Products in Virtual Worlds

RFID and the Metaverse: Physical Products in Virtual Worlds

Scan a tagged handbag with your phone and your avatar can wear a verified digital twin of it. Luxury brands are already embedding NFC and UHF inlays as authentication keys…

Audi tags paint atomisers with RFID on 28 Ingolstadt robots for demand-driven maintenance

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…

Honeywell Technologies Modernizes Barracks Access Management for U.S. Marine Corps Worldwide

Honeywell Technologies Modernizes Barracks Access Management for U.S. Marine Corps Worldwide

Honeywell has deployed LenelS2 OnGuard across US Marine Corps barracks worldwide, on a platform designed to support more than 70,000 locks. The programme cut labour costs by approximately 80% against…

Islamic Civilization Center, Tashkent: 200,000-tag RFID library build with Bibliotheca and SmartLibrary

Islamic Civilization Center, Tashkent: 200,000-tag RFID library build with Bibliotheca and SmartLibrary

A library fit-out at the Islamic Civilization Center in Tashkent has put 200,000 RFID tags into one collection. Bibliotheca and its Central Asian partner SmartLibrary supplied self-service kiosks, security gates,…

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