Sainsbury’s deploys RFID to Tu in 400 stores
Tu clothing is getting RFID in 400 Sainsbury's stores, with full implementation reported for early next month after a successful pilot. Clothing MD Ben Smith says the technology lets the…
Scaling RFID: From One Site to Enterprise-Wide Deployment
One site on UHF Gen 2, another on a legacy HF system nobody wants to touch: inconsistency is what kills multi-site RFID rollouts. Why locking down tag specifications, encoding formats…
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
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 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
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
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 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
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'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…
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