Fukui turns to NFC tags to rebuild trust in Echizen crab after labelling scandal
Fukui Prefecture is fitting tags with an integrated circuit chip to male snow crabs of 1.1 kg or more from 6 November 2026, so a shopper can check the fisher…
Keio, JRC and UPR prototype what they call the world’s first 920MHz hybrid active-passive RFID tag
Keio University SFC Research Institute, JRC and UPR have prototyped the DXh tag, which pairs the active 920 MHz radio in UPR's Smart Pallet with a battery-free ISO/IEC 18000-65 passive…
Suntory cuts spare parts stocktaking from 57 hours to 2 with SATO RFID
Tagging about 24,000 equipment spare parts with RFID took a stocktake at Suntory's Kita Alps natural water plant from 20 people and 57 hours to one person and two hours.…
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…
Animate Moves to RFID-Based Store Operations: COO Jun Fujiki on ‘the First Step Toward Industry Reform’
Animate will fit PubteX's BOOKTRAIL RFID system across every one of its Japanese stores, targeting RFID-based store operations by April 2029. The tags arrive already inside the book, tucked in…
LOGISTEED Adds RFID to SCLINK+ for Construction Building Materials Tracking
Building materials data usually sits in scattered spreadsheets and PDFs. LOGISTEED is now feeding RFID tag reads into SCLINK+, its cloud supply chain platform, so contractors can see where materials…
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