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Senec locks its semi-underground waste containers behind an RFID chip in Salamka

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

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

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 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

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…

Patent office finds core claims of RFID consumable-tagging patent unpatentable

Patent office finds core claims of RFID consumable-tagging patent unpatentable

A Stratasys patent on reading an RFID tag to authenticate 3D printing filament is being unpicked at the US patent office, and its specification openly calls the mechanism digital rights…

Paying more for access control that doesn’t work: Gurugram residents protest over failed RFID gates

Paying more for access control that doesn’t work: Gurugram residents protest over failed RFID gates

Maintenance charges at a 900-plot Gurugram township rose about 90 per cent in two years, from Rs 10 to Rs 19 per square yard a month. Residents say the RFID…

Worcestershire libraries RFID self-service saves £300,000 in staff costs

Worcestershire libraries RFID self-service saves £300,000 in staff costs

Eleven of Worcestershire's libraries now open 8am to 8pm without staff on site, and the council says that has saved more than £300,000 in wages. The kit behind it is…

7,500 endangered snuffbox mussels stocked in Clinton and Huron rivers and Cass Lake

7,500 endangered snuffbox mussels stocked in Clinton and Huron rivers and Cass Lake

Michigan stocked about 7,500 captive-reared snuffbox mussels into the Huron River, the Clinton River and Cass Lake in September 2026. One thousand carry PIT tags, another thousand carry glued numbered…

Vietnam hospital tracks every gown’s wash count with RFID in Japanese-funded laundry

Vietnam hospital tracks every gown’s wash count with RFID in Japanese-funded laundry

Le Van Thinh Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has processed 72.6 tonnes of linen across more than 3,170 wash batches since June 2025, with RFID counting every cycle each…