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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
Senec locks its semi-underground waste containers behind an RFID chip in Salamka
The Environmental Cost of RFID Tags: An Honest Look at Recyclability
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…
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
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…
