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By Steve Halliday, President, RAIN Alliance In a few years, I predict we’ll have sold more RAIN 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, simply

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 chip production and manufacturing in the world, Taiwan is a global technology center for. Lewis Lin

RAIN Reader Sensitivity Testing - WG Publication Exec Summary Blog summary RAIN Reader Sensitivity Testing - WG Publication Exec Summary elaborates why readers may become the limiting elements for the read range of RAIN systems and what this means for reader selection. RAIN systems consists of two essential parts: the

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 tags eliminate such barriers

Four questions with Juho Partanen, Co-Founder and Director of Business Development at Voyantic Ltd. Finland has topped the annual survey of happiest countries in the world for the last four years in a row. And why not? Finland has a stable welfare society juxtaposed with a strong love for outdoor

We know RAIN technology successfully bridges the physical and digital worlds providing many business-process and financial benefits. We also know sustainability has increasingly become a priority across all industries over the past several decades. Indeed, it is now a driving force of change as consumers, businesses, investors, and governments make