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The Physics of RFID: Backscatter, Coupling, and Energy Harvesting
Why airlines still lose your bag
Burkina Faso puts RFID identifiers in the rumen of 300,000 cattle to fight livestock theft
RFID and Omnichannel Retail: Enabling Buy Online, Pick Up In Store
Case Study: JC Penney – How a Botched RFID Transition Cost $28 Million
The Physics of RFID: Backscatter, Coupling, and Energy Harvesting
Double the distance from a UHF reader and the power reaching a passive tag drops to a quarter; at HF it falls with the cube of the gap. Backscatter, inductive…
Why airlines still lose your bag
Your suitcase is rarely lost. It is separated from its paperwork. Follow a bag through eleven miles of conveyor, find out why one tag in eight defeats the scanners, why…
Burkina Faso puts RFID identifiers in the rumen of 300,000 cattle to fight livestock theft
Burkina Faso launched a campaign on 19 September 2026 to identify 300,000 cattle with electronic identifiers placed in the rumen, read by handheld readers to prove who owns a recovered…
RFID and Omnichannel Retail: Enabling Buy Online, Pick Up In Store
Retailers without item-level RFID typically run at 65 to 75 per cent inventory accuracy, and that gap is what quietly kills buy online, pick up in store. Every phantom stock…
Case Study: JC Penney – How a Botched RFID Transition Cost $28 Million
JC Penney's item-level RFID rollout failed not because the technology did not work but because stores were never trained to act on the data it produced. The retreat cost the…
Senec locks its semi-underground waste containers behind an RFID chip in Salamka
Senec in western Slovakia has locked the semi-underground container enclosures on Salamka and four other streets, and only an RFID chip opens them. The chip is the one that already…
The Environmental Cost of RFID Tags: An Honest Look at Recyclability
Billions of passive UHF inlays are applied to garments, boxes and pallets every year, and almost none of them can be recycled: the chip, aluminium antenna and PET substrate contaminate…
Interview: Nanna Ingemann Dalsgaard on Digital Product Passports and the Data Behind Them
SML Group VP Nanna Ingemann Dalsgaard on what item-level RFID does and does not solve for DPP, where the margin actually sits, who owns the accuracy of a passport, and…
The RFID question Tosca and Cabka haven’t answered about their recycled-plastic pallet
The euro-size Tosca Circular Pallet, moulded by Cabka from 100% recycled plastic, gets a single sentence about RFID in both its April 2026 launch release and its October showcase. No…
Mobile RFID Apps: Building Solutions for Handheld Readers
Handheld readers fill the gaps fixed portals cannot reach, but the software decides whether staff actually use them. From Zebra's EMDK to Bluetooth sled SDKs, trigger handling and continuous versus…
