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The weekly digest · 15 October 2026
This week in RFID
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Digital Product Passports · 12 October 2026
SML Group VP Nanna Ingemann Dalsgaard on what item-level RFID does and does not solve for DPP, where the margin actually sits, who owns the accuracy of a passport, and whether consumers will ever care.
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Asset Tracking · 12 October 2026
The euro-size Tosca Circular Pallet, moulded by Cabka from 100% recycled plastic, gets a single sentence about RFID in both its April 2026 launch release and its October showcase. No band, no standard, no chip, no word on where the tag sits or whether it survives the modular repair the pallet's cost case depends on.
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Company & Financial · 9 October 2026
A Stratasys patent on reading an RFID tag to authenticate 3D printing filament is being unpicked at the US patent office, and its specification openly calls the mechanism digital rights management. It names no frequency band and no standard. Anyone selling tag-authenticated consumables, in any sector, should read the docket.
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Animal Tagging · 9 October 2026
Michigan stocked about 7,500 captive-reared snuffbox mussels into the Huron River, the Clinton River and Cass Lake in September 2026. One thousand carry PIT tags, another thousand carry glued numbered shell tags and the rest are colour-marked. Recovering them means low frequency reading at close range, because UHF does not survive water.
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Access Control · 9 October 2026
Eleven of Worcestershire's libraries now open 8am to 8pm without staff on site, and the council says that has saved more than £300,000 in wages. The kit behind it is Lyngsoe HF RFID kiosks for issue and return plus a library card read at the door. Oxfordshire paid Bibliotheca £541,740 for comparable kiosks.
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Asset Tracking · 9 October 2026
Le Van Thinh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has processed 72.6 tonnes of linen across more than 3,170 wash batches since June 2025, with RFID counting every cycle each surgical gown has seen. The Japanese-funded demonstration line was handed over in October 2026, and full commercial operation follows in 2027.
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