RFID and the Metaverse: Physical Products in Virtual Worlds
Scan a tagged handbag with your phone and your avatar can wear a verified digital twin of it. Luxury brands are already embedding NFC and UHF inlays as authentication keys…
How your parcel knows where it is
It does not. Your parcel carries a number, and a network of scanners records every time that number is seen. Follow one box from warehouse shelf to doorstep, and find…
Zebra RFID lifts Spex warehouse picking efficiency 50%
Spex in Auckland has swapped three decades of paper picking sheets for Zebra UHF RAIN RFID handhelds and FX9600 fixed readers. One picking task fell from 15 minutes to five,…
Case Study: Cooperatie Hoogstraten – RFID Tracking Strawberries Field to Shelf
More than 1,000 growers and 45,000 tonnes of strawberries a year run through Cooperatie Hoogstraten, and every reusable crate now carries a RAIN RFID inlay. The Belgian cooperative can trace…
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…
Italian health authority turns to RFID to stop wrong-blood transfusions
ASL Frosinone in central Italy will switch on Biotrac's Securtrasf transfusion safety platform from October 2026, combining RFID with barcode reading to verify patient, sample, blood product and procedure at…
Clinic Barcelona implements a pioneering material management system with RFID at their Cardiovascular Institute
Hospital Clinic Barcelona put RAIN RFID material tracking into the hemodynamics and arrhythmia rooms of its Cardiovascular Institute in September 2025, registering each device automatically and assigning it to the…
RFID pilot scheme aims to eliminate the need for manual labelling of picking crates
A collaborative pilot project in the Netherlands is putting RFID technology to the test in fruit orchards, aiming to replace the thousands of paper labels that growers currently stick onto…
Hospital Clinic Barcelona RFID System – 20 Months In
When Hospital Clinic Barcelona began exploring RFID technology back in 2019, few could have predicted just how fundamentally it would reshape the way one of Spain’s most prestigious hospitals manages…
Dipole RFID: End-to-End Traceability in Meat Processing and Cold-Chain Logistics
Meat processors have long struggled with traceability gaps in environments where cold rooms, humidity, and high-speed production lines make traditional tracking methods unreliable. Dipole RFID has outlined how UHF/RAIN RFID…
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