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Tags, readers and deployments in the 860 to 960 MHz band, where most retail, logistics and industrial RFID operates. Includes RAIN RFID implementations, hardware launches and performance benchmarks.

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

The RAIN Alliance has launched a working group for sensor-enabled RAIN RFID, chaired by Sara Amendola of Radio6ense, covering temperature, humidity, moisture, pressure, strain and freshness sensing. Battery-free tags put…

Case Study: Southern Fried Cotton – 98% Reduction in Chargebacks with RFID

Case Study: Southern Fried Cotton – 98% Reduction in Chargebacks with RFID

A two-second portal read at the packing station cut chargebacks by 98 per cent for Southern Fried Cotton, a small apparel brand with no dedicated IT department. Item-level EPC encoding…

Incora slashes inventory search time by >95% with Zebra and Xemelgo RFID

Incora slashes inventory search time by >95% with Zebra and Xemelgo RFID

Incora has cut the time its staff spend locating missing stock by more than 95% at its Jonestown distribution centre, using Zebra ATR7000 overhead RTLS readers, FX9600 fixed readers and…

RFID for Loss Prevention: Beyond the Traditional Security Tag

RFID for Loss Prevention: Beyond the Traditional Security Tag

Traditional EAS tags either trigger an alarm or they do not, and generate no data either way. Serialised UHF RFID tracks every item from the back door to the exit,…

Understanding RFID Frequencies: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Understanding RFID Frequencies: A Side-by-Side Comparison

LF reads through water and metal at 10 centimetres, UHF reaches 12 metres but struggles near liquids, and HF sits in between, powering payment cards and NFC. A side-by-side comparison…

NXP Semiconductors Breaks Ground on Assembly and Test Site Expansion in Malaysia

NXP Semiconductors Breaks Ground on Assembly and Test Site Expansion in Malaysia

NXP has broken ground on a 500,000 square foot assembly and test expansion in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, taking the site to around 900,000 square feet and more than doubling its…

Avery Dennison ships the first UCODE X inlays – eight months from chip launch to a globally tuned inlay

Avery Dennison ships the first UCODE X inlays – eight months from chip launch to a globally tuned inlay

Eight months after NXP launched UCODE X, Avery Dennison has shipped ARC certified inlays built on it. The AD Miniweb Global UCODE X packs a 42 by 16 mm antenna…

Keonn and Impinj Cut Store Inventory Times Sevenfold with Gen2X Overhead RFID

Keonn and Impinj Cut Store Inventory Times Sevenfold with Gen2X Overhead RFID

Keonn's upgraded AdvanTrack-600 overhead readers, built on Impinj's E710 chip with Gen2X, cut back-of-store inventory time from nearly an hour to under eight minutes in a 9,000-item store test. We…

Inside the EU DPP Registry: What the New Rules Actually Mean for RFID

Inside the EU DPP Registry: What the New Rules Actually Mean for RFID

The EU Digital Product Passport Registry has been live since 20 July and its operating rules took effect on 6 August, yet nobody can register the first mandated passport because…

Edgbaston Stadium’s achieve 98.79% return rate on cups in a UK First for cricket grounds.

Edgbaston Stadium’s achieve 98.79% return rate on cups in a UK First for cricket grounds.

Edgbaston Stadium got 98.79 per cent of its reusable cups back on a 20,000-guest match day, the first UK deployment of Aucxis's STAR RFID cup system and a first for…

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