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…
River Island Opens RFID Concept Store at centre:mk With Weight-Sensing Self-Checkout
River Island's new 12,800 sq ft store at centre:mk, opened on 28 September 2026, is billed as an RFID-driven concept. The chain has in fact run EPC UHF RFID across…
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 with a battery-free ISO/IEC 18000-65 passive…
Medigas Italia Integrates UHF RFID Technology Into Home Ventilator Distribution
Loading a delivery van 20 minutes faster is what UHF RFID bought Medigas Italia, one of Italy's main home oxygen therapy providers. On-metal tags on its liquid oxygen containers and…
Zebra RFID lifts Spex warehouse picking efficiency 50%
Spex in Auckland has swapped three decades of paper picking sheets for Zebra UHF RAIN RFID handhelds and FX9600 fixed readers. One picking task fell from 15 minutes to five,…
Inditex, Tageos and JD Sports headline a packed day two at RAIN in Action Madrid 2026
An extra 150 delegates arrived for day two of RAIN in Action Madrid 2026, filling the room for a session that ran from RAIN Alliance awards to Inditex's 5,000 store-entrance…
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