SBB reads rail vehicle IDs with RAIN RFID at 68 points up to 180 km/h
Swiss Federal Railways reads the ID of every passing rail vehicle at 68 trackside points, at anything from 5 to 180 km/h and through…
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RFID cabinets end missing tissue grafts at Kansas City hospital, TrackCore case study claims
North Kansas City Hospital was losing 10 or more pieces of human tissue a month, worth about $35,941 a year, before RAIN RFID cabinets…
The RFID Ecosystem Map: Understanding Who Does What
Between the silicon foundry and the warehouse floor sits an entire supply chain of specialists: chip designers like Impinj and NXP, inlay makers running…
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…
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…
Keio, JRC and UPR prototype what they call the world’s first 920MHz hybrid active-passive RFID tag
Keio University SFC Research Institute, JRC and UPR have prototyped the DXh tag, which pairs the active 920 MHz radio in UPR's Smart Pallet…
Zebra adds Impinj Gen2X across its RFID range as six makers put RAIN into mobiles
Impinj and Zebra Technologies are announcing today that Zebra is adding Gen2X support across its entire RFID range: the MC33 family, TC22R, TC501 and…
Railway Safety Gets A Boost with RFID Powered Kavach 4.0 Commissioned On South Central Railway
Indian Railways has commissioned Kavach 4.0 on South Central Railway for the first time, covering 108 route kilometres between Malkajgiri and Kamareddi in September…
Islamic Civilization Center, Tashkent: 200,000-tag RFID library build with Bibliotheca and SmartLibrary
A library fit-out at the Islamic Civilization Center in Tashkent has put 200,000 RFID tags into one collection. Bibliotheca and its Central Asian partner…
The NFC Forum shortlisted ten finalists for 2026 Innovation Awards
The NFC Forum's 2026 Innovation Awards shortlist has no payment or ticketing product on it. The ten finalists cover a battery-free industrial lockout device…
