By Lars Thuring, Chair RAIN Alliance Developers Workgroup Successful communication is one of the cornerstones for all aspects of our lives, from our workspace to our private sphere. The explosion of social media is a measure of the importance of communication to us all. If you think about it, [...]
By Steve Halliday, President, RAIN Alliance In a few years, I predict we’ll have sold more RAIN RFID IC tags then McDonald’s Restaurants have sold hamburgers. A bold proclamation, you think? I call it a meaty proposition. I found out that McDonald’s stopped counting hamburgers sold in 1994 and, now, [...]
Five questions with Lewis Lin, CEO and Vice Chairman at Arizon RFID Technology and Chairman at Yeon Technologies. Arizon RFID Technology and Yeon Technologies have roots in Taiwan. As the largest region for RAIN RFID chip production and manufacturing in the world, Taiwan is a global technology center for. Lewis [...]
Authored by the RAIN Alliance Sustainability Workgroup The RAIN RFID Sustainability workgroup, founded in 2020, is proud to announce its second publication, E-Waste Disposal Regulations and RAIN RFID. This recently published whitepaper, set to be published in November 2021 seeks to create a foundational understanding of how e-waste associated with [...]
Authored by the RAIN Alliance Healthcare Workgroup If you follow market trends, there is serious momentum towards the implementation of RAIN RFID (UHF RFID) in healthcare and pharmaceutical applications. Current applications of RAIN RFID in healthcare include asset tracking (beds, IV pumps, etc.), inventory management, and dispensing of medical devices, [...]
RAIN RFID Reader Sensitivity Testing - WG Publication Exec Summary Blog summary RAIN RFID Reader Sensitivity Testing - WG Publication Exec Summary elaborates why readers may become the limiting elements for the read range of RAIN RFID systems and what this means for reader selection. RAIN RFID systems consists of [...]
By Steve Halliday, RAIN Alliance President The question was: How do you know if a reader is working properly? This question sparked an idea. An industry-first idea to answer that question. We began by trying to find a set of RAIN test tags to test reader functionality...but we didn’t find anything [...]
In less than two decades, RAIN Alliance member Xiamen Xindeco IOT Technology Co., Ltd., has grown from a startup company to one of the three largest RFID tag manufacturers in the world. Its manufacturing output is staggering. This explosive growth is being fueled, in part, by the industry’s appetite for [...]
Long before COVID-19, the healthcare supply chain was under pressure. The global pandemic added immense and rapid demands on the care required to fight the novel Corona virus, creating an even greater challenge for the supply chain, especially among essential-to-care supplies management. Perhaps now more than ever, the use of [...]
Today’s IoT sensor deployments remain limited in size as active sensor solutions are not cost-effective for widespread distribution. Additionally, many use cases are incompatible with the presence of a battery, either due to its limited lifetime or the inherent recycling and disposal limitations. Sensor-enabled passive RAIN RFID tags eliminate such [...]