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Aileen Ryan to depart role as President and CEO of RAIN Alliance
JD Sports finishes Phase One RFID as McGrath sets sights on agentic commerce
Honeywell Technologies Modernizes Barracks Access Management for U.S. Marine Corps Worldwide
RAIN in Action Madrid, day one: RAIN enabled smartphones, sensing, and a pair of socks
RAIN In Action Madrid 2026 Starts
Aileen Ryan to depart role as President and CEO of RAIN Alliance
Aileen Ryan will step down as President and CEO of the RAIN Alliance on 30 November 2026, four years after joining in October 2022. Membership doubled and RAIN tag IC…
JD Sports finishes Phase One RFID as McGrath sets sights on agentic commerce
Germany went live in September 2026, taking JD Sports to 1,000 stores directly launched on RFID in fourteen months. The harder number sits behind it: source tagging by brand partners…
Honeywell Technologies Modernizes Barracks Access Management for U.S. Marine Corps Worldwide
Honeywell has deployed LenelS2 OnGuard across US Marine Corps barracks worldwide, on a platform designed to support more than 70,000 locks. The programme cut labour costs by approximately 80% against…
RAIN in Action Madrid, day one: RAIN enabled smartphones, sensing, and a pair of socks
Cisper were handing out socks on day one of RAIN in Action in Madrid, and our editor has agreed to wear them. Also: why the case for RAIN enabled smartphones…
RAIN In Action Madrid 2026 Starts
RAIN in Action 2026 opened in Madrid this morning, just as RAIN tag chip shipments fell to 42.7 billion in 2025 from a record 52.8 billion in 2024. RAIN Alliance…
Zebra adds Impinj Gen2X across its RFID range as six makers put RAIN into mobiles
Impinj and Zebra Technologies are announcing today that Zebra is adding Gen2X support across its entire RFID range: the MC33 family, TC22R, TC501 and TC701 handhelds, the RFD40 and RFD90…
The 900 MHz question: what NextNav’s plan would mean for RAIN RFID worldwide
A US proposal would compress the 902 to 928 MHz band from 26 MHz to 11, and hand its top 10 MHz to a single operator. Two of Europe's four…
Bpost Uses RFID For Real-Time Visibility Across 93,000 Roll Containers, Reducing New Container Purchases by 85%
Every one of the 93,000 roll containers in bpost's Belgian parcel network now carries a tag combining passive UHF RFID and Bluetooth Low Energy. The postal operator has cut its…
Railway Safety Gets A Boost with RFID Powered Kavach 4.0 Commissioned On South Central Railway
Indian Railways has commissioned Kavach 4.0 on South Central Railway for the first time, covering 108 route kilometres between Malkajgiri and Kamareddi in September 2026. Three further Kavach sections went…
Gumi City Adds RFID Check-In and Rollover Detection to Its Farm Machinery Rental Fleet
Gumi City in South Korea will automate check-in and check-out of its municipal farm machinery rental fleet with RFID, alongside unmanned payment kiosks and IoT rollover detection fitted to the…
