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SBB reads rail vehicle IDs with RAIN RFID at 68 points up to 180 km/h

SBB reads rail vehicle IDs with RAIN RFID at 68 points up to 180 km/h

Swiss Federal Railways reads the ID of every passing rail vehicle at 68 trackside points, at anything from 5 to 180 km/h and through a Swiss winter. Kathrein RAIN RFID…

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…

RFID in Tyres has taken 10 years, but is now the time it breaks through?

RFID in Tyres has taken 10 years, but is now the time it breaks through?

A TikTok of a Michelin Pilot Sport 4S sidewall passed 17,600 views in January 2026 and the first assumption was surveillance. Michelin has been tagging tyres for a decade, roughly…

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…

South Eastern Railway equips conventional locomotives with RFID Kavach safety system

South Eastern Railway equips conventional locomotives with RFID Kavach safety system

South Eastern Railway commissioned Kavach on ten locomotives at its Kharagpur Electric Loco Shed between 25 July and 1 October 2026, with four more in hand, and separately fitted GS1…

Denbighshire Council launches greener staff travel support with RFID-controlled EV pool fleet

Denbighshire Council launches greener staff travel support with RFID-controlled EV pool fleet

Denbighshire County Council has put bookable electric vans in Denbigh, St Asaph, Prestatyn and Llangollen, with RFID readers on the dashboards tying each trip to the member of staff who…

Railway Safety Gets A Boost with RFID Powered Kavach 4.0 Commissioned On South Central Railway

Railway Safety Gets A Boost with RFID Powered Kavach 4.0 Commissioned On South Central Railway

Indian Railways has commissioned Kavach 4.0 on South Central Railway for the first time, covering 108 route kilometres between Malkajgiri and Kamareddi in September 2026. Three further Kavach sections went…

Faulty RFID tag batch stops Gran Canaria airport taxi scheme after 800 fittings

Faulty RFID tag batch stops Gran Canaria airport taxi scheme after 800 fittings

Around 800 of a planned 1,000 Gran Canaria taxis had already been fitted with RFID tags for airport access when the batch was found to be faulty on 14 September…

Kernel runs 30 Ukrainian grain elevators paperless with NFC cards and unmanned weighing

Kernel runs 30 Ukrainian grain elevators paperless with NFC cards and unmanned weighing

Kernel runs around 30 grain elevators in Ukraine holding 2.2 million tonnes, and says a lorry now passes through one of them without a single paper document. NFC cards carry…

FEIG expands its access control portfolio with OSDP-capable UHF reader ID LRU500i-BD

FEIG expands its access control portfolio with OSDP-capable UHF reader ID LRU500i-BD

FEIG ELECTRONIC has added OSDP support to the ID LRU500i-BD, its long-range UHF reader for automatic vehicle identification. The reader keeps Wiegand output and gains the supervised, bidirectional protocol on…

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