Recent drone incidents in Denmark and Norway, along with increased sightings over critical infrastructure in Germany, demonstrate that the threat posed by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing. At the same time, incomplete or misleading information about effective countermeasures continues to circulate.

SATO and Loftware have announced the launch of the world's first cloud-based RFID label encoding and registration solution. The solution, which utilizes SATO's RFID printers and labels and Loftware's NiceLabel Cloud software, is designed to meet the most stringent traceability and monitoring requirements, brand authenticity, and manufacturer verification.

RS Components (RS), a brand of Electrocomponents plc, presents a portable device that facilitates social distancing in the workplace. EGOpro Social Distancing by AME (Advanced Microwave Engineering) leverages innovative active safety technology to keep businesses running safely.

Murata ID Solutions' RFID tracking and tracing technology has been used by Parma's historic opera house, the Teatro Regio di Parma, to gain real-time visibility and control over valuable stage assets produced by the theater over the past 30 years. The technology is being used to improve storage and inventory management, allowing the theater to pinpoint the exact location of each item, ensuring security when valuable pieces are used in co-productions or rented to other theaters.

Kramer Electronics has developed Corona Tag, a solution integrated into the worker ID card that allows monitoring of interaction and exposure time between employees, recording social distancing in the workplace and eliminating the need for a wide lockdown in case of infection.

Smartrac has announced the introduction of its new "DURA" delivery format for many of its inlays and labels, with DOGBONE® DURA being the first available RAIN RFID (UHF) product. The new product is designed for industrial, supply chain, and logistics applications, such as labeling reusable pallets and returnable transport items.

Smartrac Technology Group has announced the launch of its EAGLE Green labels. As the latest products developed for Smartrac's Green Tag Program, EAGLE Green strips and labels combine superior sustainability features with a compact size, excellent readability, and high quality for optimized retail applications.

Smartrac Technology Group has launched the new PRO series of its NFC tags and inlays portfolio. The company's CIRCUS PRO NFC tag, equipped with NXP's NTAG® 424 DNA IC, will be the first member of the new product series optimized for highly secure product authentication.

The ELATEC family of RFID readers, distributed by Mecter, TWN4 MultiTech 3, available with or without BTLE to interact with Android and iPhone mobiles if necessary, is a reader that supports virtually all tags worldwide in the 125KHz (LF) and 13.56MHz (HF) bands, and includes antennas in both frequencies in a size of only 50x35mm.

Smartrac has announced its Green Tag Program to the public. In addition to its existing commitment to minimizing any potential environmental impact of its manufacturing processes, the RFID and IoT tagging system company has committed to manufacturing RFID products that deliver on a genuine sustainability promise, even under rigorous Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) controls.

Confidex presents a new family of asset management tags that leverages the benefits of Wirepas connectivity. 

Murata has announced the LXFLANMXMG-003, a RAIN RFID tag designed for use on metallic components and surfaces. Previously, placing these tags on metal was problematic because metallic surfaces reflect the signal emitted from the reader and interfere with communication between the tag and the reader.

Fujitsu has announced BearCom's implementation of the Fujitsu GlobeRanger IoT tracking solution to manage and track its extensive portfolio of rental wireless devices, which are used to support many of the nation's largest events.

Mouser Electronics, Inc. has the Panasonic PAN1740 Beacon available. Based on the PAN1740 Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) module, the PAN1740 Beacon is pre-configured to operate on a CR2032 battery and uses the Locate Beacon app for Android and iOS.

During the largest retail event in New York, Smartrac unveiled the new Accessory and Bling inlays, complementing the company's RFID RAIN product range, based on Impinj's Monza® R6 chip.

Checkpoint Systems presents its new Slim and Whisper RFID tags for the health, beauty, and cosmetics categories. These types of products pose specific inventory management challenges due to their small size and the high number of SKUs on the shelf.

SMARTRAC has announced the launch of two new RFID inlays for the retail industry, both based on the high performance of the Impinj Monza R6 chips.

Farsens, SL presents the VMETER-DCLV10, a battery-free RFID sensor capable of transmitting a unique identifier and the associated voltage level data to a commercial EPC C1G2 reader without requiring batteries in the sensor tag. The device measures voltage in the range of 0V to 1.5V with a variable gain from 1 to 1000.

LG Innotek has announced that it is increasing its presence in the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions market with regard to the retail industry with electronic shelf labels (ESL).

The Medusa from Farsens SL is a development platform for battery-free UHF RFID components. The Medusa includes the ANDY100 chip with EPC C1G2 communication and a Texas Instruments MSPG2233IPW20 microcontroller for communication with the developer circuit.