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Faulty RFID tag batch stops Gran Canaria airport taxi scheme after 800 fittings

Faulty RFID tag batch stops Gran Canaria airport taxi scheme after 800 fittings

Around 800 of a planned 1,000 Gran Canaria taxis had already been fitted with RFID tags for airport access when the batch was found to be faulty on 14 September…

Kernel runs 30 Ukrainian grain elevators paperless with NFC cards and unmanned weighing

Kernel runs 30 Ukrainian grain elevators paperless with NFC cards and unmanned weighing

Kernel runs around 30 grain elevators in Ukraine holding 2.2 million tonnes, and says a lorry now passes through one of them without a single paper document. NFC cards carry…

SBI Traceability’s SHIMENAWA NFC Platform First Adopted for Art Value Transmission and Sharing

SBI Traceability’s SHIMENAWA NFC Platform First Adopted for Art Value Transmission and Sharing

A Ginza gallery gave every caption panel an NFC tag in September 2026, so visitors could tap for the painter's own account of each work. It is the first time…

RFID in Aviation: Why Every Airline is Tagging Bags and Parts

RFID in Aviation: Why Every Airline is Tagging Bags and Parts

Delta hit 99.9 per cent bag tracking accuracy after embedding RAIN RFID in its tags, and IATA now estimates 60 per cent of global baggage is tracked with the technology.…

How RFID Anti-Collision Works: Reading Hundreds of Tags at Once

How RFID Anti-Collision Works: Reading Hundreds of Tags at Once

Hundreds of tags all wake and respond at once when a reader energises its field, and every reply collides. Anti-collision protocols, from Slotted Aloha to EPC Gen2's adaptive Q-algorithm, are…

Can someone skim your card by standing next to you?

Can someone skim your card by standing next to you?

The crowded train fear, tested against physics and the UK fraud figures. Why near field signals collapse with distance, what a thief would actually get, why relay attacks work but…

lululemon’s Wuhan Logistics Centre Opens with Automation and End-to-End RFID for Footwear and Apparel Supply Chain

lululemon’s Wuhan Logistics Centre Opens with Automation and End-to-End RFID for Footwear and Apparel Supply Chain

lululemon opened its third Chinese distribution hub in Wuhan on 16 September 2026, built with SF Express. RFID tunnel readers capture every item at goods-in, so inbound needs no manual…

Fontenay-sous-Bois tracks 1,600 stainless steel meal trays by RFID to stop losses

Fontenay-sous-Bois tracks 1,600 stainless steel meal trays by RFID to stop losses

Since 7 September 2026, the 1,600 stainless steel meal trays used for home meal delivery in Fontenay-sous-Bois, near Paris, have been tracked by RFID. The commune published its real figures:…

OREA Rolls Out Apple Wallet and Google Wallet Hotel Keys

OREA Rolls Out Apple Wallet and Google Wallet Hotel Keys

Guests at OREA Place Seno in Prague and OREA Resort Sklar can, as of September 2026, open their rooms with an NFC key held in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet,…

Aksigen IVF puts RFID electronic witnessing in new Panvel fertility lab

Aksigen IVF puts RFID electronic witnessing in new Panvel fertility lab

Aksigen IVF's new 5,000 sq ft centre in Panvel, Maharashtra tags every dish and straw with RFID electronic witnessing plus biometric verification, so a mismatched sample triggers an alarm before…