This year marks a major milestone in retail supply chain technology: the 50th anniversary of the very first retail barcode scan. On June 26, 1974, the first Universal Product Code (UPC) was scanned on ...

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A homeowner had a vexing problem. While the family cat was able to go in and out through a pet door, so was a mischievous neighborhood raccoon, which snuck in and ate the cat’s food. RFID came to the ...

A team of researchers in Scotland has unveiled a RFID tag, which they claim could make the technology cheaper as well as more sustainable. The scientists at the University of Glasgow explain that the ...

Although adoption of a radio frequency identification (RFID) solution has become faster and more straightforward than it was just a decade ago, every deployment comes with its own unique challenges.

The UK's information watchdog has warned companies using RFID to make sure they're playing nicely with data protection legislation - even if it means telling consumers how to disable the tags. The ...

The amount of data that gets captured during an NFL game these days is absolutely mind-blowing. There’s so much that it’s almost hard to comprehend. But John Pollard, vice president of business ...

UC San Diego graduate students Nagarjun Bhat (left) and Ishan Bansal hold certificates for the Best Paper award at the 2025 IEEE RFID Conference. The paper describes SenSync, which retools everyday ...