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The weekly digest · 22 October 2026
This week in RFID
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Company & Financial · 20 October 2026
GreyOrange has bought Site Bionics, whose software turns a store's existing security cameras into a live digital twin, and will fold it into gStore alongside item-level RFID. Terms were undisclosed. Co-founder Adam Blair, formerly of RADAR, says the industry's promise to merge RFID and computer vision has gone unmet until now.
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Digital Product Passports · 20 October 2026
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 50 million by August 2024. The engineering problem is solved. The explaining to car owners never happened.
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Animal Tagging · 15 October 2026
Burkina Faso launched a campaign on 19 September 2026 to identify 300,000 cattle with electronic identifiers placed in the rumen, read by handheld readers to prove who owns a recovered animal. No supplier, standard or reader deployment plan has been published, and a passive device identifies rather than locates.
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Article · 18 October 2026
Portal readers at a dock door can verify an entire inbound shipment against the ASN in seconds, cutting receiving labour by as much as 90 per cent. A technical walk through the five WMS integration points, from middleware and LLRP event filtering to put-away verification, cycle counting and shipping.
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HF · 15 October 2026
Retailers without item-level RFID typically run at 65 to 75 per cent inventory accuracy, and that gap is what quietly kills buy online, pick up in store. Every phantom stock record becomes a cancelled order and a broken promise. Raising accuracy above 95 per cent is what makes the BOPIS economics finally work.
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Case Studies · 21 October 2026
Three stores, three countries, one pilot. Lager 157 swapped manual stock counts for item-level RFID in Naestved, Nacka and Raisio between August and October 2025, and came out with 98 to 99.8% stock accuracy and 97% SKU accuracy. The Swedish value clothing chain is using that baseline to plan its next stores.
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