Barcelona trials NFC wristbands and keyrings as discreet alarm triggers at La Mercè 2026
Barcelona is handing out 1,500 NFC wristbands and 1,500 NFC keyrings at La Mercè 2026, letting someone tap their own phone to raise a discreet alarm routed to a coordinator…
Roma Digital Revolution at the Olimpico as NFC Debuts for Stadium Access
AS Roma has put entry to the Stadio Olimpico on the phone, with NFC tickets in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet plus a rotating QR code in its Il Mio…
Counterfeit Napoli shirts pass the same NFC authenticity check as the real ones
Counterfeit SSC Napoli centenary shirts made in Hong Kong now clone the NFC chip in the Authentic patch and return the club's own congratulatory message. A working authentication chip adds…
Vietnam’s Bình Điền Gives Every Fertiliser Bag a Digital ID with RFID and QR Codes
Bình Điền Fertilizer JSC started trialling bag level RFID and QR code identification at its Long An plant in Vietnam on 17 September 2026, with full rollout due in early…
SBI Traceability’s SHIMENAWA NFC Platform First Adopted for Art Value Transmission and Sharing
A Ginza gallery gave every caption panel an NFC tag in September 2026, so visitors could tap for the painter's own account of each work. It is the first time…
RFID in Aviation: Why Every Airline is Tagging Bags and Parts
Delta hit 99.9 per cent bag tracking accuracy after embedding RAIN RFID in its tags, and IATA now estimates 60 per cent of global baggage is tracked with the technology.…
Autentico NFC – Anti-counterfeiting for wine, oil, and fashion
Sardinian firm Autentico Srl puts an NFC tag inside the adhesive label a producer already uses, so a shopper can tap a wine or olive oil bottle with a phone…
Animate Moves to RFID-Based Store Operations: COO Jun Fujiki on ‘the First Step Toward Industry Reform’
Animate will fit PubteX's BOOKTRAIL RFID system across every one of its Japanese stores, targeting RFID-based store operations by April 2029. The tags arrive already inside the book, tucked in…
Tanzanian gold mine cuts asset losses 73% with RFID, repaid in 11 months
An unnamed Tanzanian gold mine tagged more than 2,000 movable assets with passive UHF RFID and reported a 73% drop in equipment losses over 12 months of operation. Gate alarms…
Pragmatic Semiconductor wins RFID Product Gold Prize at IOTE 2026 for its flexible NFC portfolio
Pragmatic Semiconductor has taken the RFID Product Gold Prize at the IOTE 2026 Innovative Product Awards in Shenzhen for its flexible NFC chips, NFC Connect PR1301 and NFC Protect PR1311.…
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