RAIN Alliance Reports 42.7 Billion Tag Chip Shipments in 2025 Adoption and new-program expansion continues despite macroeconomic factors Each year, the RAIN Alliance compiles shipment data from its leading tag manufacturer members — EM Microelectronic, Impinj, NXP, and Shanghai Quanray Electronics — to track how the market is moving. In
Leading experts from Decathlon, Fresenius Kabi, Qualcomm, Times-7, and Zebra Technologies join expanded Board RAIN Alliance has announced the five accomplished leaders that have been elected to serve two-year terms on its Board of Directors until March 2028. The Board members are Gwen Volpe (Fresenius Kabi), Joseph “Jos” Kunnen (Times-7
Board Elections Are Now Open Voting is officially underway for five new RAIN Alliance Board members. This is an important election. RAIN adoption is accelerating, RAIN-enabled smartphones are entering the market, DPP legislation is advancing globally, and major deployments are scaling. The five Board members elected will guide the
The RAIN Manufacturing Quality Guideline provides manufacturers with an open and transparent framework for tag quality assurance 11 June 2025 – RAIN Alliance, the non-profit industry organization supporting the development and adoption of standards-based Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), has today announced the publication of its RAIN
April 1, 2025 — The RAIN Alliance is pleased to announce the results of its recent Board of Directors election. Congratulations to James Goodland (NXP Semiconductors), Pierre Muller (EM Microelectronic), Juho Partanen (Impinj Inc.), and Abby Wu (Xindeco IoT), who have been elected to serve two-year terms through March 2027.
This article appeared in the 4 March 2025 issue of SupplyChain Strategy Aileen Ryan, President and CEO at RAIN Alliance, looks at the role of emerging technologies in supporting the push to decarbonize supply chains. Globalized and interoperable supply chains have opened up business opportunities like never before. From car
Shipment data from top manufacturers reflects proliferating use cases and growing demand for RAIN technology across countless industries 26 February 2025 – RAIN Alliance, the non-profit industry organization supporting the development and adoption of standards-based Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), has today announced that 52.8bn RAIN tag chips
This article appeared in RFID Journal on January 27, 2025. Companies using UHF RAIN RFID to track products or assets now have a new protocol to work with that could make tag reading faster, with unrelated tags filtered out, and access to more tag data The RAIN Alliance and GS1
Chipset company Qualcomm, retailer Decathlon and RAIN maker Impinj have been working toward a world of RFID-enabled phones and other devices (this article appeared in the December 6, 2024 issue of RFID Journal) Technology companies and at least one retailer have been working on innovations that could enable phones and
Acceptance into the Committee will ensure the representation of RAIN technology as an important data carrier to enable the DPP across various industries Monday 2 December 2024 – RAIN Alliance, the non-profit industry organization supporting the development and adoption of Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), has today announced