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Interview: Lesley Suen on RFID at Scale and Identity at Source
NFC Forum Announces Winners for 2026 NFC Forum Innovation Awards
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly pathology cuts single-use plastic with Indexor RFID iRack sample transport
ARG-US active RFID gains AI seals and digital twin leak detection for nuclear material packages
Melbourne Airport’s A$500 million baggage system puts an RFID tag on every tote
Interview: Lesley Suen on RFID at Scale and Identity at Source
SML connects more than 20 billion products a year for over 600 brands. Lesley Suen on what only breaks at that volume, embedding a tag that survives a garment, and…
NFC Forum Announces Winners for 2026 NFC Forum Innovation Awards
A padlock that draws its power from the phone that unlocks it, a cooktop that talks to its own pans, and cattle records stored on the animal's tag rather than…
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly pathology cuts single-use plastic with Indexor RFID iRack sample transport
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust sent almost 780,000 plastic specimen bags a year to incineration before its Blood Sciences labs adopted Abbott's Indexor system. Reusable iRacks carrying an RFID tag…
ARG-US active RFID gains AI seals and digital twin leak detection for nuclear material packages
Argonne National Laboratory's ARG-US system, first presented in 2009, monitors nuclear material packages with 433 MHz active tags carrying radiation, seal, temperature, humidity and shock sensors. Three advances published in…
Melbourne Airport’s A$500 million baggage system puts an RFID tag on every tote
Melbourne Airport's A$500 million international baggage system lifts capacity from 1,800 to over 4,000 bags per hour. The airport says each bag is electronically paired to its tote, but the…
RFID and the Metaverse: Physical Products in Virtual Worlds
Scan a tagged handbag with your phone and your avatar can wear a verified digital twin of it. Luxury brands are already embedding NFC and UHF inlays as authentication keys…
RFID in Healthcare: Patient Safety, Asset Tracking, and Beyond
Closed-loop medication systems built on RFID wristbands have cut drug administration errors by more than 50 per cent in published studies. From tagged surgical sponges that prevent retained instruments to…
RFID Tag Memory: EPC, TID, User Banks Explained
Every EPC Gen2 tag carries four memory banks, and a kill password stored in one of them can silence the tag forever. Understanding Reserved, EPC, TID and User memory determines…
How your parcel knows where it is
It does not. Your parcel carries a number, and a network of scanners records every time that number is seen. Follow one box from warehouse shelf to doorstep, and find…
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Audi tags paint atomisers with RFID on 28 Ingolstadt robots for demand-driven maintenance
Twenty-eight painting robots in Audi's new topcoat line at Ingolstadt now carry RFID on every atomiser component. Dürr and Kathrein Solutions developed transponders with bespoke antenna geometry that read reliably…
