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Case Studies

Real deployments.
Measurable results.

See how teams across hospitality, industry, and events put Proud Tek RFID & NFC to work — cutting losses, speeding up operations, and securing access at scale, in the harshest field conditions.

Manufacturing custom RFID since 2008  ·  Shipped to 40+ countries worldwide
2008
Building RFID since
40+
Countries shipped to
500M+
Tags produced annually
99.9%
Field read reliability
Featured deployment

1.8 million garments, 250+ wash cycles per tag

A closer look at a large-scale industrial laundry rollout — from the counting problem to a PPS-housed tag that outlives the garment it tracks.

Industrial Laundry & Uniform Rental Proud Tek PPS-housed UHF RFID laundry tag heat-sealed into a rental garment

Giving 1.8 million rental garments a digital identity that survives the wash

Challenge
A European uniform-rental operator ran three industrial laundries serving 14,000 B2B accounts on a textile-laminated tag that was down to 91% readability by wash cycle 120 — dead tags meant manual re-tagging and billing disputes.
Solution
Proud Tek PPS-housed UHF laundry tags (heat-sealed, no exposed inlay) were fitted across all three rental pools — workwear, kitchen wear and healthcare uniforms — read hands-free at overhead sort-line portals.
Results
Year-1 measured survival was 99.4% of tags still readable at cycle 250 (97.1% at cycle 350), with a 99.7% sort-line portal read rate at 12 garments per second belt speed.
99.4%
Readable at cycle 250
99.7%
Portal read rate
2.1yr
Payback on tag cost
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More customer stories

One technology, deployed across industries

From encrypted hotel keys to DSCSA-ready pharmaceutical labels — six documented Proud Tek deployments and the numbers behind them.

Hospitality Custom-printed MIFARE Classic hotel key cards for a 28-property group

A 28-property hotel group rolls out 2.4M key cards a year

A South-East Asia group moved 12,000 keyed rooms from magnetic-stripe to MIFARE Classic 1K contactless cards over 18 months — keeping full compatibility with its existing Saflok RFID locks.

28
Properties
2.4M/yr
Cards supplied
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Events & Venues Single-use UHF RFID festival wristbands for cashless entry

180,000 UHF wristbands run a four-day cashless festival

A European festival with a 45,000 daily peak used single-use UHF wristbands across every ticket tier for gate access, age verification, cashless top-up and re-entry tracking.

180k
Wristbands
45k
Daily peak entry
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Libraries ICODE SLIX2 RFID labels on library books at a self-service kiosk

A 47-branch library migrates 1.4M items to ICODE SLIX2

A US municipal library system replaced a legacy proprietary 13.56 MHz chip with ISO 15693 ICODE SLIX2 labels over 24 months — enabling self-service checkout and AFI-based security gates.

1.4M
Items converted
47
Branches
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Pharmaceutical Item-level UHF RFID labels on prescription bottles for DSCSA compliance

DSCSA-ready UHF labels at 380 million units a year

A US specialty-pharmacy distributor labels every prescription bottle and carton with GS1 SGTIN-96-encoded UHF RFID to satisfy the FDA's DSCSA interoperability requirements at full line speed.

380M/yr
Units labelled
14k
Prescriber accounts
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Restaurants Tabletop Google Review NFC card in a fast-casual restaurant booth

3.1× more Google reviews across 412 restaurants

A US fast-casual chain put an NTAG215 tap-to-review card in every booth and at every takeout counter — each encoded with that store's unique Google Review URL. Reviews per store tripled.

3.1×
Review lift
412
Stores
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Retail & Apparel UHF RFID hang-tag labels source-tagged on apparel

Source-tagging 11 million apparel units a year with UHF

A North American mid-tier retailer tags every full-price garment with Monza R6-P hang-tag labels at the factory — lifting store inventory accuracy from 67% visual counts to 98%.

98%
Inventory accuracy
11M/yr
Units tagged
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Where we deploy

Built for the places tags get tested

High heat, metal, moisture, chemicals, crowds. If the environment is tough on electronics, that's exactly where our engineering earns its keep.

HospitalityHealthcareEvents & Venues ManufacturingRetail & ApparelLogistics Laundry ServicesEducationAgriculture Luxury & Brand Protection
In their words

Engineers who sweat the RFID physics

★★★★★

"Proud Tek engineered a tag that survives our autoclave. Nobody else would even quote it."

PL
Plant Manager
Industrial Laundry Group
★★★★★

"Samples in a week, production in a month. Their team actually understands read-range and antenna tuning."

SI
Systems Integrator
Access Control Partner
★★★★★

"Read rates held up on metal assets where our previous supplier's tags simply failed in the field."

RL
Reliability Lead
Aerospace MRO
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