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The weekly digest · 20 August 2026
This week in RFID
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Hardware · 19 August 2026
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 look at the results, the retailers involved, and what Gen2 and Gen2X actually mean.
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Hospitality · 18 August 2026
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 any British cricket ground. Every cup is tagged, so deposit refunds are paid automatically even when someone else returns them.
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Asset Tracking · 13 August 2026
The University of Wyoming Libraries has tagged 2 million items with RFID across six locations, replacing a manual inventory process that previously took around five years to complete. The project covers the main William Robertson Coe Library in Laramie and four branches, including the National Park Service Library at Grand Teton, housed at the AMK Ranch field station. Library RFID on this scale is what finally makes a full stock check practical rather than aspirational. […]
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Asset Tracking · 13 August 2026
The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation became applicable across the bloc on 12 August, bringing with it a set of obligations that will push transport packaging steadily away from single use and towards reusable systems. A UHF RFID deployment at Dutch flower and plant logistics specialist Hoek Group, built on equipment supplied by Cisper Electronics B.V. and tracking software from RTiOT, is a timely illustration of what the reusable model actually demands once a […]
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Article · 16 August 2026
Barcode-only operations run at 65 to 75 per cent inventory accuracy, while RFID sites routinely sit above 95 per cent. That gap is stock you cannot sell, labour you keep re-buying and customers you quietly lose. A tour of the invisible line items that never appear on any vendor quote.
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Article · 18 August 2026
A returned item can be back on a pick list within hours rather than sitting in a queue for days when fixed readers automate returns intake. Serialised UHF tags also expose swap fraud and repeat return abuse that barcodes never catch, and turn returns data into an early warning system for quality problems.
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