More than two years ago, Hewlett-Packard, the IT and computer products and services provider based in Palo Alto, Calif., started deploying RFID in parts of its manufacturing and distribution chain.

Radio Frequency Identification is a technology that uses radio waves to track and identify objects. RAIN RFID is a specific type of RFID that is becoming increasingly popular in the retail industry.

RFID chips have quietly migrated from factory floors into the rubber that meets the road, turning tires into data points long before most drivers noticed. The technology has been embedded in products ...

There are many different types of RFID systems employed worldwide, but generally speaking, a device used in cars for toll-collection purposes would be an active transponder that stores a unique serial ...

According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), retailers lost $112 billion due to shrink in 2022, up from nearly $94 billion in 2021. As such, electronic article surveillance (EAS) hard tags, ...

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 ...

Just a few decades ago, buying things meant going to the bank — your own physical branch, mind you, during the brief hours it was open — to take out cash. If you didn't have time for that, or ran out ...

A new technology is showing that something as simple as radio waves—already used to track packages or find lost items—could ...

The state of Colorado is testing radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to see if they can help protect elk herds from contagious diseases. Working with three ranchers and an animal-tracking ...