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Clustag launches COS Tunnel, an RFID tunnel built to fit over existing conveyors
How to Present RFID to Your Board: A Guide for Champions
South Korean Army tags rifles with RFID and locks them behind fingerprints in smart barracks push
Japanese drug wholesaler KSK swaps paper delivery slips for NFC card receipts in Hitachi rollout
When RFID Projects Fail: Five Common Patterns and How to Avoid Them
Clustag launches COS Tunnel, an RFID tunnel built to fit over existing conveyors
Most RFID tunnel projects need their own section of conveyor, which means line changes and downtime. Clustag's COS Tunnel, shown at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026 in September, is built…
How to Present RFID to Your Board: A Guide for Champions
A board will not engage with antenna polarisation, but it will engage with 2.4 million pounds of lost sales from phantom out-of-stocks. Winning approval for RFID means quantifying the pain…
South Korean Army tags rifles with RFID and locks them behind fingerprints in smart barracks push
A soldier at South Korea's 9th Infantry Division now presses a finger to a reader and one rifle, tagged with RFID, unlocks in the barracks bedroom. Three months earlier US…
Japanese drug wholesaler KSK swaps paper delivery slips for NFC card receipts in Hitachi rollout
From November 2026, drivers at Osaka drug wholesaler KSK will take receipt of medicine deliveries by reading a pharmacy or hospital's NFC card with a smartphone, instead of a paper…
When RFID Projects Fail: Five Common Patterns and How to Avoid Them
The hardware almost never causes an RFID project to fail; the business case does. Five patterns account for most failures, starting with plans built around reader counts instead of measurable…
Costa Rica’s RFID cattle-tag deadline hits trade as southern auction gets 27% of usual cattle
Just 178 cattle arrived at a Perez Zeledon auction on 27 October 2026 instead of the usual 650, the first day Costa Rica enforced its RFID ear-tag rule. Nationally 94.34%…
Dutch academic hospital tracks endoscopy equipment and patient samples with Kathrein RFID
An academic hospital in the Netherlands put RFID readers above doors, inside cabinets and beside the lifts to track endoscopy equipment, then reused the same estate to follow patient samples…
Beontag puts NFC behind Bulgari’s connected luxury experience
Beontag's case library carries a Bulgari project in which an NFC tag sits hidden under the logo, giving each piece a digital channel that lasts the product's life. The case…
RFID stickers at the pump allow Bolivia’s fuel regulator to go after subsidy fraud under government takeover
Bolivia's fuel regulator ANH had blocked 10,781 vehicle plates for repeat refuelling by 18 October 2026, killing their RFID windscreen stickers at the pump. The B-SISA system is ten years…
Premier Inn puts NFC room keys in Apple and Google wallets across 97,000 rooms
hub by Premier Inn has started putting NFC room keys into Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, the first phase of a Whitbread programme covering over 97,000 rooms across more than…
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