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  • Wed. Aug 26th, 2026
Aligarh municipal commissioner to install RFID tags and QR codes on 260,000 buildings across the city

Aligarh municipal commissioner to install RFID tags and QR codes on 260,000 buildings across the city

Aligarh Municipal Corporation plans to tag around 260,000 buildings across its 90 wards so property tax, user charges and fines sit on one digital record. The announcement is billed as…

University of South Carolina moves the CarolinaCard onto the phone for Fall 2026

University of South Carolina moves the CarolinaCard onto the phone for Fall 2026

The University of South Carolina switches on its Mobile CarolinaCard in Fall 2026 under a five year, $1.5 million Transact Campus contract. Students, faculty and staff can hold the credential…

300,000 documents across 120 libraries tagged with RFID by Conseil départemental de l’Aisne in France

300,000 documents across 120 libraries tagged with RFID by Conseil départemental de l’Aisne in France

The Aisne department in northern France is fitting RFID chips to 300,000 books, CDs and DVDs and redistributing them across the 120 libraries it supplies. Staff now process 30 items…

51,000 labels by hand: Stadtbücherei Pirmasens completes its barcode to RFID migration

51,000 labels by hand: Stadtbücherei Pirmasens completes its barcode to RFID migration

Stadtbücherei Pirmasens has completed its move from barcode to RFID, buying 51,000 transponder labels and gluing one into every book with volunteer help over 18 months. The roughly EUR 63,000…

Scaling RFID: From One Site to Enterprise-Wide Deployment

Scaling RFID: From One Site to Enterprise-Wide Deployment

One site on UHF Gen 2, another on a legacy HF system nobody wants to touch: inconsistency is what kills multi-site RFID rollouts. Why locking down tag specifications, encoding formats…

Pilot Project uses RFID cards to track some Broken Arrow students riding the school bus

Pilot Project uses RFID cards to track some Broken Arrow students riding the school bus

Broken Arrow Public Schools has grown its RFID bus pilot from one elementary school to six, with cards clipped to backpacks and read at the bus door as pupils board…

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors

The RAIN Alliance has launched a working group for sensor-enabled RAIN RFID, chaired by Sara Amendola of Radio6ense, covering temperature, humidity, moisture, pressure, strain and freshness sensing. Battery-free tags put…

San Diego’s RFID bin programme: 231,178 tagged carts, and reading them is still a pilot

San Diego’s RFID bin programme: 231,178 tagged carts, and reading them is still a pilot

San Diego's Environmental Services Department has now delivered 231,178 RFID-tagged gray trash bins and pulled 257,508 old black ones, part of a 750,000-bin replacement. The tags went in for billing…

Fairfax County Public Schools “tap-to-ride” scheme launched

Fairfax County Public Schools “tap-to-ride” scheme launched

Fairfax County Public Schools has issued tap-to-ride ID cards to every one of its 130,000 students, logging boardings across roughly 45,000 stops. FFX Now broke the rollout, but neither it…

Interview: Stefan Genser on NFC and the Future of Healthcare

Interview: Stefan Genser on NFC and the Future of Healthcare

The NFC Forum has launched a dedicated Healthcare Special Interest Group. In the first RFID News interview, its chair Stefan Genser talks tap-to-access care, the US$30.5 billion counterfeit medicine problem,…