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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
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51,000 labels by hand: Stadtbücherei Pirmasens completes its barcode to RFID migration
Stadtbücherei Pirmasens has completed its move from barcode to RFID, buying 51,000 transponder labels and gluing one into every book with volunteer help over 18 months. The roughly EUR 63,000…
Scaling RFID: From One Site to Enterprise-Wide Deployment
One site on UHF Gen 2, another on a legacy HF system nobody wants to touch: inconsistency is what kills multi-site RFID rollouts. Why locking down tag specifications, encoding formats…
Pilot Project uses RFID cards to track some Broken Arrow students riding the school bus
Broken Arrow Public Schools has grown its RFID bus pilot from one elementary school to six, with cards clipped to backpacks and read at the bus door as pupils board…
RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors
The RAIN Alliance has launched a working group for sensor-enabled RAIN RFID, chaired by Sara Amendola of Radio6ense, covering temperature, humidity, moisture, pressure, strain and freshness sensing. Battery-free tags put…
San Diego’s RFID bin programme: 231,178 tagged carts, and reading them is still a pilot
San Diego's Environmental Services Department has now delivered 231,178 RFID-tagged gray trash bins and pulled 257,508 old black ones, part of a 750,000-bin replacement. The tags went in for billing…
Fairfax County Public Schools “tap-to-ride” scheme launched
Fairfax County Public Schools has issued tap-to-ride ID cards to every one of its 130,000 students, logging boardings across roughly 45,000 stops. FFX Now broke the rollout, but neither it…
Interview: Stefan Genser on NFC and the Future of Healthcare
The NFC Forum has launched a dedicated Healthcare Special Interest Group. In the first RFID News interview, its chair Stefan Genser talks tap-to-access care, the US$30.5 billion counterfeit medicine problem,…
Walmart Ends Decade-Long NFC Resistance with Apple Pay and Google Pay Now Accepted
Walmart begins accepting Apple Pay, Google Pay and contactless cards at select US stores and Sam's Club locations on 24 August 2026, with every US store covered by year end…
Case Study: Southern Fried Cotton - 98% Reduction in Chargebacks with RFID
A two-second portal read at the packing station cut chargebacks by 98 per cent for Southern Fried Cotton, a small apparel brand with no dedicated IT department. Item-level EPC encoding…
Incora slashes inventory search time by >95% with Zebra and Xemelgo RFID
Incora has cut the time its staff spend locating missing stock by more than 95% at its Jonestown distribution centre, using Zebra ATR7000 overhead RTLS readers, FX9600 fixed readers and…
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