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Edgbaston’s RFID cups win RFID Project of the Year, with a 95.7% return rate across the season
Chainway fixed RFID readers are tracking production coils in a Michelin UK plant pilot
Turkey targets 43 free-flow toll stations by December 2026
RFID Tag Application Methods: Manual, Semi-Auto, and Fully Automated
Kathrein RFID readers power free-flow tolling on São Paulo’s Rodoanel Norte ring road
Controversy over microchips on surgical instruments at Poznań Provincial Hospital
Poznań Provincial Hospital tagged 12,500 surgical instruments with UHF RFID, then found chips detaching during sterilisation and turning up in patients' wounds. Several hundred tags were damaged in nine months,…
UK/NI dementia-safeguarding NFC Find My Loved One Expands across multiple councils
Lichfield District Council has funded 2,000 NFC identification devices for residents living with dementia, the largest order yet in a scheme now running across at least eight UK police forces…
Building an Internal RFID Centre of Excellence
Fragmented knowledge is what undermines mature RFID programmes: one team knows antennas, another knows middleware, and nobody sees the whole picture. A lean centre of excellence of three to six…
The PPWR blind spot: why your RFID tag is now the weakest link in your compliance chain
Under the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation the tag is a packaging component, not a tracking tool. If its antenna is a continuous sheet of metal, the technical file…
Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey cuts annual shrink from $1.49m to $154,000 with item-level RFID
Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia says item-level RFID cut its annual shrink from more than $1.49 million to about $154,000, on a $1.2 million investment it puts…
Bovine EID tags available in Northern Ireland from 7 September, says DAERA
From 7 September 2026 Northern Ireland becomes the first UK region to offer electronic ID tags for cattle, on a voluntary basis. The low frequency tags cost about GBP 1.50…
Dyson Puts an RFID Tag in Every Brush Head of Its CameraJet Toothbrush
Every brush head on the Dyson CameraJet, the company's first electric toothbrush, carries an RFID tag that counts cleaning sessions and tells the handle which head is fitted. Launched on…
The Walmart RFID mandate in 2026: what suppliers must do, who is exempt and what comes next
Walmart's item-level RFID programme now covers essentially all general merchandise, with compliance enforced through chargebacks in 2026. What the mandate actually requires, from ARC-approved inlays to GS1 serialisation, who is…
IDCRAFT launches IDSCOUT Encode, an NFC encoding station where the AI never writes
IDCRAFT has made its IDSCOUT Encode NFC encoding station generally available. An operator describes the job in plain language, a language model running locally on the device interprets it and…
Hospital Albert Einstein saves R$1.5m a year on linen with RFID
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo has saved R$1.5 million a year on linen control alone, with 120,000 textile pieces individually tagged and 500 rooms inventoried by RFID reading…
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