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Short answer: PESO (the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation) has published an official implementation page for the Gas Cylinders (Amendment) Rules, 2025, which require cylinders to carry a permanent, tamper-proof identification — barcode, QR..
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Short answer: The EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a machine-readable record of a product — identity, materials, origin, care, repair and end-of-life information — that anyone in the value chain reaches by scanning a data carrier attached to the ..
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Short answer: Indian states are moving to a two-part tracking stack for mineral transport vehicles — a GPS/VLTD unit that reports where the truck is, plus an RFID tag that proves which truck physically crossed a mine gate, weighbridge or check post. ..
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Short answer: Walmart has extended item-level RFID beyond apparel into its wider general-merchandise assortment, and supplier-facing guidance describes 2026 as the year full item-level compliance is expected across essentially all mandated categories..
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Short answer: RFID does not belong on every SKU in a dark store, and any vendor who tells you otherwise is selling you tags you don't need. It earns its money on high-value items, returnable crates and cold-chain totes — anywhere a single miscount co..
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Short answer: An EPC (Electronic Product Code) is the unique identifier written into an RFID tag's memory, and SGTIN-96 is the GS1 encoding scheme that retail RFID mandates in India normally ask for. It packs your GS1 Company Prefix, an item referenc..
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Short answer: GSTN has announced a set of e-way bill changes with effect from 15 June 2026, and has deferred two of the bigger ones — mandatory Ship-To GSTIN in Bill-To/Ship-To transactions, and a voluntary EWB Closure facility usable only on the del..
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Short answer: An RFID e-seal is a single-use, high-security container bolt seal with a passive UHF RFID chip built in, so the same unique seal number can be checked by eye or read electronically. CBIC Circular 14/2026 made an exporter's self-sealing ..
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Short answer: When RFID tags stop reading, the tag itself is rarely the fault. In Indian deployments the cause is almost always one of five things — the wrong tag for the surface (metal or liquid detuning), poor tag-to-antenna orientation, reader pow..
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Short answer: in India, an RFID reader must carry WPC Equipment Type Approval (ETA) and operate
on the 865-867 MHz band within 1 W transmitter power and 4 W ERP. Passive tags, labels and cards need no approval.
Readers built for the US 902-928 MHz ba..
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"How much will an RFID project cost?" is the first question every Indian operations, IT, or procurement head asks — and the honest answer is "it depends on scale, environment, and how much software integration you need." This 2026 guide breaks down r..
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If you run distribution, warehousing, or a 3PL operation in India, mis-shipments, manual dispatch scanning, and blind spots in outbound loading are quietly eating your margins. This guide is for supply chain and warehouse managers who want to underst..