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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
Kontich scraps bin bags as pay-by-weight waste collection begins
Kontich, south of Antwerp, dropped plastic refuse bags on 1 September 2026 and moved to chipped wheelie bins weighed on the lorry. Residents pay EUR 0.35 a kilo for residual…
Dutch frame maker Van de Vin cuts €30,000 a year in printing with embedded RFID dowels
Timber window and door frame manufacturer Van de Vin has replaced paper drawings on its factory floor with UHF RFID tags embedded in the frames themselves, in a deployment built…
RFID for SMEs: Is It Finally Affordable for Smaller Businesses?
Passive UHF inlays that cost 20 to 30 cents a few years ago now sell for 5 to 8 cents, and entry-level fixed readers have dropped under $500. Add cloud…
Lefties opens first UK store at Liverpool ONE with RFID self-checkout
Inditex has put RFID self-checkout into its value brand for the first UK time, at a 27,000 sq ft Liverpool ONE store. The interesting question is not the technology but…
Choosing RFID Software: Build vs Buy vs Configure
Custom RFID software typically takes six to eighteen months to build, and five-year ownership costs run three to five times the initial estimate. Off-the-shelf platforms deliver value in days but…
Avery Dennison and Scouting America put NFC inside 2026 Jamboree patches
Two tap-enabled patches appeared at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in July 2026: one drove a site-wide check-in game, the other opened a video keepsake. Avery Dennison supplied the tags. Here…
Pragmatic Semiconductor wins RFID Product Gold Prize at IOTE 2026 for its flexible NFC portfolio
Pragmatic Semiconductor has taken the RFID Product Gold Prize at the IOTE 2026 Innovative Product Awards in Shenzhen for its flexible NFC chips, NFC Connect PR1301 and NFC Protect PR1311.…
Bellaire library tags nearly 100,000 books in four months
Bellaire City Library in Texas tagged close to 100,000 books in four months, against an original estimate of nine months to a year. The shortcut was circulation itself: staff tagged…
Akıncı toll gates go barrier-free naming the next eight stations
Free flow tolling went live at Turkey's Akıncı toll station near Ankara on 24 August 2026, the fifth conversion of the year and the 35th of the 106 stations KGM…
When to Bring in an Independent RFID Consultant
Vendor-authored specifications are written to favour the vendor's own systems, and the cost of that bias surfaces later in change orders and lock-in. From writing technology-neutral tenders to rescuing stalled…
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