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The weekly digest · 8 October 2026
This week in RFID
While the RFID world has not stopped moving, visiting Madrid for RAIN in Action has slowed our writing. However, the content to come will make it worthwhile.
The first of the interviews from last week is published today with Lesley Suen of SML, 6 questions with some insightful answers, well worth a read.
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Digital Product Passports · 7 October 2026
SML connects more than 20 billion products for over 600 brands. Lesley Suen on what only breaks at that volume, embedding a tag that survives a garment, and whether a twelve-month rollout is honest.
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Asset Tracking · 2 October 2026
Twenty-eight painting robots in Audi's new topcoat line at Ingolstadt now carry RFID on every atomiser component. Dürr and Kathrein Solutions developed transponders with bespoke antenna geometry that read reliably inside metal paint booths, so valves and bell cups log their own switching cycles and get replaced only when genuinely worn.
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Customer Engagement · 1 October 2026
River Island's new 12,800 sq ft store at centre:mk, opened on 28 September 2026, is billed as an RFID-driven concept. The chain has in fact run EPC UHF RFID across 280 stores since 2017. What is actually new is one unexplained claim: weight-sensing self-service checkouts, on a technology normally sold to remove weight checks.
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Asset Tracking · 1 October 2026
Loading a delivery van 20 minutes faster is what UHF RFID bought Medigas Italia, one of Italy's main home oxygen therapy providers. On-metal tags on its liquid oxygen containers and cylinders let a carrier read a whole van load in one sweep, and serial number typing errors have dropped to zero.
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Asset Tracking · 1 October 2026
Keio University SFC Research Institute, JRC and UPR have prototyped the DXh tag, which pairs the active 920 MHz radio in UPR's Smart Pallet with a battery-free ISO/IEC 18000-65 passive chip. The three say it is the first 920 MHz hybrid active-passive tag, tested at a Chiba pallet depot in July 2026.
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Article · 3 October 2026
It does not. Your parcel carries a number, and a network of scanners records every time that number is seen. Follow one box from warehouse shelf to doorstep, and find out why tracking jumps, why out for delivery lasts nine hours, and why returns get refunded first.
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