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The weekly digest · 1 October 2026
This week in RFID
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Digital Product Passports · 24 September 2026
RAIN chip shipments fell from 52.8 billion in 2024 to 42.7 billion in 2025. RAIN Alliance CEO Aileen Ryan calls it a blip against four years of roughly 50% growth, and names grocery and RAIN-enabled smartphones as what comes next. On the EU passport deadline she is blunt: regulation is a catalyst, not a replacement for ROI.
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Hardware · 28 September 2026
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 sleds, and the FXR90, FX9600, FX7500 and ATR7000 fixed and overhead readers. It arrives as a firmware upgrade rather than a hardware refresh, and Zebra says the devices are available now. A second announcement, published at the same time, lists AMobile, Bluebird, Chainway, Unitech, UROVO […]
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RAIN RFID · 27 September 2026
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. Europe's highest high power RFID reader channel sits inside that slice. Why an FCC docket reaches every RAIN deployment, wherever it is.
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Asset Tracking · 24 September 2026
A library fit-out at the Islamic Civilization Center in Tashkent has put 200,000 RFID tags into one collection. Bibliotheca and its Central Asian partner SmartLibrary supplied self-service kiosks, security gates, inventory wands and shielded staff workstations for a 3,105 square metre library holding manuscripts and rare works. The Center opened in March 2026.
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RAIN RFID · 29 September 2026
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 is better than the session made it sound, the NFC point that got missed, and the privacy question nobody has answered.
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Asset Tracking · 25 September 2026
Every one of the 93,000 roll containers in bpost's Belgian parcel network now carries a tag combining passive UHF RFID and Bluetooth Low Energy. The postal operator has cut its spending on replacement containers by 85% since the rollout, and is now linking individual parcels to the cage they travel in.
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