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The weekly digest · 5 November 2026
This week in RFID
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Digital Product Passports · 29 October 2026
Every garment in Prada's Re-Cashmere and Re-Wool lines, on sale from October 2026, carries a 13.56 MHz NFC tag linked to the Aura blockchain. The tap no longer just proves the item is genuine: it reports fibre origin, supplier and processing country at each stage, which is a Digital Product Passport built before the EU asks for one.
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Asset Tracking · 29 October 2026
Norfolk Naval Shipyard is the first of the US Navy's four public shipyards to install NADACS, a passive RFID and GPS sensor mesh system that tracks tools and material across the waterfront. Hardware installation finishes in June 2027 and the system goes live in July 2027, around ten years after the programme began as research.
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Asset Tracking · 30 October 2026
An academic hospital in the Netherlands put RFID readers above doors, inside cabinets and beside the lifts to track endoscopy equipment, then reused the same estate to follow patient samples in their transport boxes. Kathrein Solutions names the hardware and the integrator, but publishes no figures at all.
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Hardware · 2 November 2026
Most RFID tunnel projects need their own section of conveyor, which means line changes and downtime. Clustag's COS Tunnel, shown at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026 in September, is built to be fitted over the conveyor a distribution centre already runs, and configured to its speed and parcel spacing. Clustag has published no read rate, throughput or price.
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Uncategorised · 31 October 2026
The hardware almost never causes an RFID project to fail; the business case does. Five patterns account for most failures, starting with plans built around reader counts instead of measurable outcomes such as cutting count time from four hours to forty-five minutes. Each pattern has a straightforward, and usually organisational, fix.
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Asset Tracking · 29 October 2026
Sanko Pallet Rental's TRAX GO platform, which tracks individual pallets using RFID tags and QR codes, reached 1,000 adopting companies in September 2026 and won a 2026 Good Design Award in October. A pharmaceutical deployment documented by Japan's transport ministry cut one repositioning run from 642 km to 18 km, saving 116.9 tonnes of CO2 a year.
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