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Athens deploys 12,100 RFID bin tags and 145 on-vehicle readers in integrated waste system
Overhead RFID goes mainstream as GreyOrange passes 3,800 stores with H&M
Santa Cruz METRO launches contactless fare payment with Tap2Cruz
Asda completes electronic shelf label rollout across all UK Express stores
RFID logs every wash cycle as Cheonan opens AI-inspected reusable delivery container centre
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Athens deploys 12,100 RFID bin tags and 145 on-vehicle readers in integrated waste system
The Municipality of Athens has contracted 12,100 RFID tags for its waste bins and 145 readers for its refuse collection vehicles, plus weighing systems on 50 trucks and 1,000 fill-level…
Overhead RFID goes mainstream as GreyOrange passes 3,800 stores with H&M
GreyOrange says more than 3,800 retail locations now run its gStore platform, tracking roughly 200 million items with UHF RFID. H&M Group accounts for hundreds of those stores across three…
Santa Cruz METRO launches contactless fare payment with Tap2Cruz
Santa Cruz METRO is bringing open loop contactless payment to its buses as Tap2Cruz, letting riders tap a bank card or phone at USD 2 a ride, with a daily…
Asda completes electronic shelf label rollout across all UK Express stores
Asda has completed electronic shelf labels across all 517 UK Express stores, 1.2 million units for GBP 7.5 million, ending the weekly swap of 120,000 paper tickets. The VusionGroup labels…
RFID logs every wash cycle as Cheonan opens AI-inspected reusable delivery container centre
Every stainless steel container in Itgreen's Returnit scheme, launched in Cheonan on 28 August 2026, carries an RFID tag recording supply, collection, wash and per-item cycle count. That is the…
Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust tracks 846 beds and 1,309 medical devices with active RFID
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust tags 1,309 medical devices, 846 of them beds, across its two acute hospitals and regularly locates 95% of them. Battery-powered active RFID tags report…
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…
RFID in Manufacturing: Tracking Work-in-Progress Across the Line
Fixed readers at cell entry and exit points give manufacturing execution systems live work-in-progress visibility without a single operator scan. On mixed-model lines, tags carry routing data that steers conveyors…
RFID Standards and Protocols: EPC Gen2, ISO 18000, and Beyond
EPC Gen2, formally ISO 18000-63, is the reason a tag from one manufacturer answers a reader from another anywhere in the world. A guided tour of the standards stack behind…
What the hard plastic tag on clothes actually does
It has no battery, no serial number and, in almost every case, no ink. Here is what is really inside a clothes security tag, why the pin will not pull…
