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…
Medigas Italia Integrates UHF RFID Technology Into Home Ventilator Distribution
Loading a delivery van 20 minutes faster is what UHF RFID bought Medigas Italia, one of Italy's main home oxygen therapy providers. On-metal tags on its liquid oxygen containers and…
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,…
Inditex, Tageos and JD Sports headline a packed day two at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026
An extra 150 delegates arrived for day two of RAIN in Action Madrid 2026, filling the room for a session that ran from RAIN Alliance awards to Inditex's 5,000 store-entrance…
Aileen Ryan to depart role as President and CEO of RAIN Alliance
Aileen Ryan will step down as President and CEO of the RAIN Alliance on 30 November 2026, four years after joining in October 2022. Membership doubled and RAIN tag IC…
JD Sports finishes Phase One RFID as McGrath sets sights on agentic commerce
Germany went live in September 2026, taking JD Sports to 1,000 stores directly launched on RFID in fourteen months. The harder number sits behind it: source tagging by brand partners…
RAIN in Action Madrid, day one: RAIN enabled smartphones, sensing, and a pair of socks
Cisper were handing out socks on day one of RAIN in Action in Madrid, and our editor has agreed to wear them. Also: why the case for RAIN enabled smartphones…
RAIN In Action Madrid 2026 Starts
RAIN in Action 2026 opened in Madrid this morning, just as RAIN tag chip shipments fell to 42.7 billion in 2025 from a record 52.8 billion in 2024. RAIN Alliance…
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…
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