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Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust tracks 846 beds and 1,309 medical devices with active RFID

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

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

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

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

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…

Tanzanian gold mine cuts asset losses 73% with RFID, repaid in 11 months

Tanzanian gold mine cuts asset losses 73% with RFID, repaid in 11 months

An unnamed Tanzanian gold mine tagged more than 2,000 movable assets with passive UHF RFID and reported a 73% drop in equipment losses over 12 months of operation. Gate alarms…

Dutch pig sector moves to replace paper slaughter records with RFID ear tags

Dutch pig sector moves to replace paper slaughter records with RFID ear tags

Dutch pork, transport and meat sectors want the metal slaughter mark on pigs replaced by an RFID ear tag, reportedly by January 2027, now that the electric prod ban makes…

Ohio State University launched mobile BuckID NFC credentials in Apple and Samsung wallets

Ohio State University launched mobile BuckID NFC credentials in Apple and Samsung wallets

Ohio State University launched Mobile BuckID on 25 August 2026, putting its campus ID in Apple, Google and Samsung wallets for students, faculty and staff in Columbus. 11,100 people had…

Fossacesia tags 5,370 bins to bill households on residual waste from 2027

Fossacesia tags 5,370 bins to bill households on residual waste from 2027

From 1 January 2027 Fossacesia in Abruzzo will bill 5,370 households and businesses on the residual waste they actually put out, using RFID tags on kerbside bins and sacks. Nearby…

FEIG uses UHF RFID to check fire appliance equipment is back on board

FEIG uses UHF RFID to check fire appliance equipment is back on board

FEIG ELECTRONIC has set out how UHF RFID transponders on hoses, breathing sets and cutting tools let a fire appliance check its own load is complete before the next call.…