RFIDJournal.com Trends 2026: floLIVE’s Curtis Govan
The Connectivity Fabric of 2026: Three Shifts That Will Redefine Global IoT The history of the Internet of Things (IoT) has largely been a history of fragmentation. For the last decade, we have been building islands: islands of connectivity, islands of data, and...
RFIDJournal.com Trends 2026: Wireless Broadband Alliance’s Tiago Rodrigues
The 2026 Checklist for RFID Leaders: Performance, Security, and Simplicity Hopefully, by now, it will come as no surprise to you that RFID is no longer an isolated layer of the enterprise stack. In 2025, the most successful deployments treated RFID as part of a wider...
RFID at NRF: Previewing the Innovations That Will Shape 2026
Checking in with Beontag, BrightSign, Impinj, Manhattan Associates, Sensormatic Solutions, Simbe, SmartSense, Wiliot, and Zebra The retail landscape is constantly shifting. To stay ahead, businesses need technology that doesn’t just react to change but...
RFIDJournal.com Trends 2026: Optimum Retailing’s Sam Vise
5 Retail Shifts That Will Reshape In-Store Operations After years of slow-but-steady adoption, 2025 marked a turning point for RFID: retailers stopped treating the technology as a backroom tool and started using it to solve persistent problems on the floor. There’s no...
RFIDJournal.com Trends 2026: TradeBeyond’s Jono Blackmore
Inside the Great Supply Chain Rethink, and How the World Will Move in 2026 Over the course of a decade of traveling to manufacturing hubs, warehouse floors, and trade corridors stretching from East Asia to North America to Europe, I’ve seen the impacts of...
RFIDJournal.com Trends 2026: MIDCOM Data Technologies’ Ken Feinstein
Smart Tags Meet Smart People: Why 2026 Will Belong to Wearables After a few decades in manufacturing, you start to notice a pattern. Every few years, someone declares that a single technology is about to “change everything.” Most of the time, it changes a few things,...
RFIDJournal.com Trends 2026: Paessler GmbH’s David Montoya
Smart Industry Must Shine a Brighter Light in Network Darkness From RFID readers to conveyors, sensors, and even robots, everything is connected and communicating across today’s industrial networks. Data flows freely, decisions happen at machine speed, and IT and OT...
RFIDJournal.com Trends 2026: EZO’s Syed Ali
The Next Era of IoT Belongs to Intelligent Assets For years, the promise of IoT has been about connectivity— sensors, devices, and systems that could communicate with one another. That promise has largely been realized. We’ve connected everything from medical...