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News wire · newsRFID Journal

Zebra Showcases New Supply Chain Solutions

Zebra Technologies has expanded its hardware and software portfolio with new RFID-enabled tracking solutions designed to enhance real-time visibility across the supply chain. These developments are critical for manufacturers and retailers seeking to automate inventory management and reduce fulfillment errors in increasingly complex omnichannel environments.

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News wire · press releaseCheckpoint Systems

Beauty Technology Strategy: Balancing Customer Experience and Backend Efficiency

Checkpoint Systems highlights how RFID adoption in the beauty sector addresses high theft rates and complex SKU management while enabling high-touch customer experiences. For retailers, this technology provides the item-level visibility necessary to secure high-value products without sacrificing the aesthetic appeal or accessibility of the sales floor.

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News wire · press releaseCheckpoint Systems

How to Repair Clothing at Home Easily: A Guide for Fashion Brands

Retailers are leveraging RFID-embedded digital product passports to provide consumers with specific repair instructions and localized tailoring resources directly through garment tags. This integration fosters brand loyalty and circularity by extending product lifecycles, allowing brands to decouple revenue growth from raw material consumption while meeting tightening ESG compliance standards.

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News wire · press releaseIdentiv, Inc. (INVE)

Identiv Expands ID-Safe NFC Tag Portfolio to Enable Secure Product Authentication, Tamper Detection, and Traceability

Identiv has expanded its ID-Safe portfolio with new NFC tags featuring NXP NTAG 424 DNA and 22x DNA chips to provide localized tamper detection and AES-128 cryptographic authentication. These high-security tags offer manufacturers a scalable solution for luxury brand protection and pharmaceutical supply chain integrity by preventing cloning and verifying product state at the hardware level.

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News wire · newsDC Velocity

Zebra shows off hands-free RFID wearable and AI-optimized mobile computers

Zebra Technologies has unveiled the RS2100 hands-free wearable scanner and new AI-optimized mobile computers designed to streamline high-volume logistics and retail tasks. These hardware releases address the growing demand for ergonomics in warehouse environments while leveraging edge AI to improve data processing speed and battery management. For integrators and buyers, these tools represent a shift toward reducing worker fatigue and operational downtime through more intuiti

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News wire · researchResearch sourceIEEE Xplore

A Senior Citizen Information Management System Integrating Arduino-Based RFID Automated Attendance Tracking at Brgy. Tolosa, Cabadbaran City

Researchers have developed a localized information management system that pairs Arduino hardware with RFID technology to automate attendance tracking for senior citizen community services. This implementation demonstrates how low-cost, open-source hardware can be leveraged to replace manual record-keeping, reducing administrative overhead and increasing data integrity for public sector resource allocation.

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News wire · researchResearch sourceNature

Smart beamforming and deep-learning reader for RFID systems in edge IoT

Researchers have developed a smart RFID reader that integrates adaptive beamforming with deep-learning algorithms to achieve near-perfect tag identification in complex edge IoT environments. This advancement addresses critical signal interference and collision challenges, enabling significantly higher data reliability for high-density warehouse and industrial automation deployments.

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News wire · newsIndustry bodyIEEE Council on RFID

Call for Nominations for IEEE CRFID Emily Sopensky Meritorious Service Award

The IEEE Council on RFID is accepting nominations for the Emily Sopensky Meritorious Service Award through May 2026 to recognize individuals who have significantly advanced the council's global visibility and mission. Highlighting leadership in the field fosters professional standards and strengthens the organizational ties between academic research and commercial technology applications. Supporting these honors helps maintain the industry's governance structure and encourage

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News wire · researchResearch sourceSpringer Nature Link

RFID-enabled traceability for perishables: evidence from a system dynamics–Taguchi study

Integrating RFID-enabled traceability systems into perishable supply chains can reduce product spoilage and waste by more than 15% while improving logistical efficiency. For manufacturers and integrators, these findings provide a data-driven framework for optimizing tag deployment strategies to maximize ROI in temperature-sensitive cold chains.

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News wire · eventsIndustry bodyIEEE Council on RFID

Submit a Proposal for IEEE RFID 2027

The IEEE Council on RFID is soliciting proposals for academic or industry partners to host the IEEE RFID 2027 conference in the United States. As a primary global forum for advancements in sensors, IoT, and wireless power, this event provides the host organization a strategic platform to shape the R&D roadmap and facilitate high-level networking between top-tier researchers and industrial stakeholders.

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News wire · press releaseCheckpoint Systems

How RFID Solutions Is Revolutionizing Recycling and Sustainability

Checkpoint Systems is positioning RFID as a critical enabler for the circular economy by providing the granular data necessary to track products from manufacturing through recovery and reintroduction. This development is commercially significant because it allows retailers and manufacturers to automate waste sorting and verify sustainability claims, turning environmental compliance into a measurable operational efficiency.

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News wire · newsIndustry bodyAIM Global

RFID Community Connect to Bring the Industry Together for Two Days of Insight, Innovation, and Real-World Applications

AIM Global has announced RFID Community Connect, a two-day forum focused on deploying cross-industry innovations and real-world RFID applications. The event serves as a critical networking hub for manufacturers and integrators to align technical roadmaps with emerging market demands in automation and supply chain visibility.

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News wire · researchResearch sourceScienceDirect.com

A wireless and passive RFID-tag biosensor for the rapid detection of Escherichia coli: A novel method for the assessment of food safety

Researchers have developed a passive RFID-tag biosensor capable of detecting *E. coli* in food products without an internal power source or complex laboratory equipment. This development enables real-time, non-destructive safety monitoring throughout the supply chain, offering food processors a cost-effective alternative to traditional destructive testing methods.

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News wire · newsIndustry bodyIEEE Council on RFID

IEEE RFID 2026 -See the Keynote & Tutorial Speakers

The IEEE Council on RFID has announced the preliminary lineup of keynote and tutorial speakers for the IEEE RFID 2026 conference. This early identification of thought leaders establishes the event’s technical agenda and provides industry stakeholders with a roadmap of the emerging research areas likely to drive the next generation of logistics and sensing standards.

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News wire · press releaseIT News Africa

Ethio telecom Launches RFID ‘Non-Stop’ Expressway Toll System via telebirr

Ethio telecom has integrated RFID-enabled electronic toll collection with its telebirr mobile money platform to automate payments on Ethiopia's expressways. This deployment reduces vehicle congestion and manual processing costs while accelerating the digital payment ecosystem in a key emerging market.

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News wire · researchResearch sourceIEEE Xplore

Durable Conductive Ink Enabling Washable Textile Electronics for RFID and WPT Devices

A new conductive ink formulation allows for the screen-printing of RFID antennas and wireless power transfer (WPT) coils that maintain high conductivity through multiple industrial laundry cycles. This development removes a primary barrier to the mass adoption of smart textiles by ensuring electronic performance does not degrade during routine cleaning. For manufacturers, this enables the production of durable, wash-resistant e-textiles for healthcare and hospitality sectors

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News wire · researchResearch sourceIEEE Xplore

RISE: Resource-Efficient RFID Security Protocol in IoT with S-Box and Elliptic Curve Cryptography

The RISE protocol combines Elliptic Curve Cryptography with a lightweight S-Box architecture to provide mutual authentication and data integrity for resource-constrained IoT devices. This development offers a viable path for implementing high-level encryption in low-cost passive tags without reaching the computational or power limits typical of traditional security standards.

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News wire · press releaseCheckpoint Systems

System Anti Theft: How to Make the Transition to RFID as EAS

Checkpoint Systems has outlined a strategic framework for retailers to replace traditional Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) with RFID-based loss prevention systems. This transition is commercially significant because it allows retailers to consolidate anti-theft and inventory management into a single infrastructure, reducing shrinkage while providing item-level visibility that legacy RF or AM systems cannot offer.

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News wire · newsRFID Journal

Tönnjes Offers New RFID Security Solutions for Vehicle Identification

Tönnjes has introduced a new portfolio of RAIN RFID-enabled license plates and windshield labels designed to prevent counterfeiting and unauthorized vehicle access. These security solutions provide governments and fleet operators with a tamper-proof method for electronic vehicle identification, streamlining automated tolling and law enforcement while reducing the financial losses associated with vehicle-related fraud.

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News wire · press releaseSML Group

You Can’t Sell What You Can’t See: Why the Summer Inventory Transition Demands a Different Kind of Accuracy

Retailers utilizing item-level RFID at the factory level can mitigate the risks of lost sales and premature markdowns caused by the compressed summer inventory transition. By replacing high-level inventory estimates with real-time floor availability, brands gain the agility needed to optimize stock allocation during peak seasonal shifts.

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News wire · press releaseIndustry bodyRAIN Alliance

Nation RFID Unveils AI-Powered iSense and iMax, Accelerating IoT Chip Industry into the AI Era

Nation RFID has launched the iSense and iMax chip series, integrating on-chip AI processing capabilities directly into RAIN RFID silicon. This development allows for real-time sensor data analytics at the edge, reducing the latency and high bandwidth requirements typically associated with transmitting raw data to the cloud for interpretation.

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News wire · press releaseHID Global Blog

Rethinking Pool & Beach Towel Management with RFID: A Simple Shift That Saves Hotels Thousands

HID Global highlights how embedding UHF RFID tags into pool and beach towels allows hotels to automate inventory tracking and guest billing for unreturned items. This shift reduces annual replacement costs by up to 40% and eliminates the labor-intensive manual reconciliation processes that typically plague high-volume hospitality operations.

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News wire · newsSupply Chain Dive

FedEx’s next AI leap to feature RFID, robotics

FedEx is integrating RFID and robotics into its AI-driven fulfillment strategy to automate parcel sorting and improve real-time inventory visibility. This move signals a major shift toward hands-free logistics, enabling the carrier to reduce manual labor costs and increase throughput speed for high-volume enterprise shippers.

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News wire · press releaseCheckpoint Systems

ItemOptix™ 2.0: Scaling Retail Intelligence Through Simplified RFID

Checkpoint Systems has launched ItemOptix™ 2.0, transitioning the SaaS platform from basic inventory visibility to a focus on actionable omnichannel intelligence. This update is commercially significant for retailers as it reduces the technical friction of RFID integration, allowing for faster scaling of accurate real-time stock data across complex global supply chains.

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