Fukui turns to NFC tags to rebuild trust in Echizen crab after labelling scandal
Fukui Prefecture is fitting tags with an integrated circuit chip to male snow crabs of 1.1 kg or more from 6 November 2026, so a shopper can check the fisher…
RFID in Tyres has taken 10 years, but is now the time it breaks through?
A TikTok of a Michelin Pilot Sport 4S sidewall passed 17,600 views in January 2026 and the first assumption was surveillance. Michelin has been tagging tyres for a decade, roughly…
RFID in Fashion and Apparel: From Factory Floor to Fitting Room
Source tagging at the factory, for roughly the cost of an upgraded care label, is why apparel leads the world in item-level RFID adoption. High SKU counts, rapid stock turn…
RFID and WMS Integration: A Technical Deep Dive
Portal readers at a dock door can verify an entire inbound shipment against the ASN in seconds, cutting receiving labour by as much as 90 per cent. A technical walk…
The Physics of RFID: Backscatter, Coupling, and Energy Harvesting
Double the distance from a UHF reader and the power reaching a passive tag drops to a quarter; at HF it falls with the cube of the gap. Backscatter, inductive…
Why airlines still lose your bag
Your suitcase is rarely lost. It is separated from its paperwork. Follow a bag through eleven miles of conveyor, find out why one tag in eight defeats the scanners, why…
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…
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