


News and commentary on the global RFID & NFC industry, including new technologies, standards, market trends and regulations. Stay up to date with what is happening in the smart card and smart tag world to better plan your future projects.
News and commentary on the global RFID & NFC industry, including new technologies, standards, market trends and regulations. Stay up to date with what is happening in the smart card and smart tag world to better plan your future projects.

People hear “RFID” and instantly think: Someone can steal my card info just by walking past me.That fear isn’t totally crazy. But it’s also not the whole story. Here’s my take: RFID blocking cards are useful, but only as part…
People ask for “eco-friendly RFID wristbands” like it’s one single product. It’s not. It’s a bundle of trade-offs: material, comfort, tamper resistance, read performance, and end-of-life. And if you’re running a real venue, the biggest headache isn’t the material itself—it’s…

If you run a parking site (residential, office, campus, or a logistics yard), you’ve probably seen the same mess on repeat: someone “borrows” a badge, a car sneaks in on a shared credential, and your audit trail turns into a…

If your access system still “trusts the ID,” you’re living on borrowed time. Most cloned keyfob incidents don’t start with Hollywood hacking. They start with a setup that treats a static identifier like it’s a password. You can fix that.…

If you run an industrial laundry line, you’ve seen this movie: tags look “fine,” but your read rate starts sliding. Then the sort tunnel misses pieces, exceptions pile up, and someone ends up doing a manual recount at the worst…

Hotel key cards look simple. In real life, they can make or break your front desk flow. When a guest taps three times and the door still won’t open, nobody blames “RFID compatibility.” They blame you. So here’s the argument…

You test a tag on your desk, it reads 8 meters.You mount it on a steel rack, it suddenly dies at 2 meters. Nothing “mystery”. Real RFID read range comes down to three big knobs: Let’s walk through them with…