IEEE RFID 2026 · United States · 2026

IEEE RFID 2026 Active BLE Badge

Minew MTB11 ambient-light-harvesting BLE conference tag

IEEE RFID 2026's official conference page advertised a complimentary twentieth-anniversary Bluetooth Low Energy badge, with 100 badges available. Its dedicated badge page identifies the active artifact as a custom-printed Minew MTB11 ambient-light-harvesting BLE tag. The source says that, when sufficiently charged from ambient light, it transmits a unique 48-bit identifier, battery voltage, and temperature in Bluetooth Low Energy advertisement packets. The technical-programme chairs' welcome confirms the June 16-18 Santa Fe conference occurred, but the sources do not establish individual receipt or final device state.

EventIEEE RFID 2026
SeriesIEEE International Conference on RFID
LocationHilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico
CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

source-named active BLE badge co-sponsor

reelyActive

The official IEEE RFID 2026 badge page names reelyActive as a co-sponsor of the custom-printed active BLE tag. This does not establish tag design, manufacturing, firmware authorship, data-controller role, or image-reuse authority.

Source

source-named active BLE badge co-sponsor and tag brand

Minew

The official IEEE RFID 2026 badge page identifies a Minew MTB11 tag and names Minew as co-sponsor. This records the public brand/sponsorship relationship, not a final component configuration, manufacture lot, firmware responsibility, or image-reuse authority.

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Why It Mattered

It adds a well-documented, completed technical-conference artifact whose stated behavior is unusually precise without converting a manufacturer-style tag description into claims about attendee tracking, custom firmware, conference access, universal handoff, or a fully audited deployment.

Hardware

The official badge page identifies a Minew MTB11 ambient-light-harvesting BLE tag, custom printed for the conference's twentieth anniversary. It says the tag transmits a 48-bit identifier, battery voltage, and temperature when sufficiently ambient-light charged. The reviewed sources do not identify its enclosure material, dimensions, antenna, solar or energy-storage architecture, radio settings, exact sensor component, power specification, final print artwork, firmware version, serial-number range, test results, certification, final production revision, or physical units handed out.

Software & Apps

The official page describes advertised data fields and a third-party tag platform, but does not publish conference-specific firmware, source code, build or update instructions, a released binary, application code, server deployment, account model, data-retention policy, access-control model, telemetry policy, or a support commitment. The source's references to conference demonstrations and compatible tools are not treated as user instructions, a guarantee of interoperability, or evidence of a particular participant workflow.

Lore

The twentieth IEEE International Conference on RFID ran June 16-18, 2026 at the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza. The official badge page says attendees could choose whether to accept and carry conference RFID badges and credits reelyActive and Minew as co-sponsors of this active tag. The organizer's conference page said 100 BLE badges were available, while the post-event technical-programme welcome confirms the event itself; neither source records the final allocation, recipient identities, successful activation, or individual use.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

official active conference tag official badge documentation

Minew MTB11 ambient-light-harvesting BLE tag

The official badge page identifies the active conference artifact as a Minew MTB11 ambient-light-harvesting BLE tag, custom printed for IEEE RFID's twentieth anniversary.

Compatibility: IEEE RFID 2026 active badge as documented; final revision, enclosure, energy-harvesting performance, availability, and individual receipt are not established.

Source
official described tag behavior official badge documentation

Stated BLE identifier, voltage, and temperature advertising

The official page says the tag broadcasts a unique 48-bit identifier, battery voltage, and temperature in BLE advertisement packets when sufficiently charged from ambient light.

Compatibility: Source-described tag behavior only; no source establishes radio configuration, range, exact sensor behavior, participant use, data collection, logging, privacy controls, or an event-wide operating result.

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

BLE telemetry, privacy, and software boundary note

The official page identifies the active tag and says it advertises a unique 48-bit identifier, battery voltage, and temperature when light charged, but does not publish tag firmware, a protocol specification, radio configuration, range, cryptography, identifier assignment, account linkage, scan/log policy, participant consent, data retention, data sharing, server configuration, security review, source release, or software license.

The entry preserves the stated radio and sensing surface without implying an attendee-tracking deployment, a privacy guarantee, secure implementation, a particular collection practice, or a supported software workflow.

Confidence
official badge documentation
Status
high-level advertised fields documented; implementation and data practices unpublished
Timeframe
2026 source review
Source note
IEEE RFID 2026 RFID Badges page.
allocation, handoff, and final device-state boundary note

The organizer's conference page says 100 complimentary BLE badges were available, and the programme chairs confirm the conference occurred. The official sources do not provide a recipient list, final quantity produced or accepted, inventory accounting, handoff report, serial allocation, activation result, replacement policy, device-health record, or post-event owner report.

The dossier records a documented conference artifact without translating an availability statement into universal receipt, final distribution, continuous operation, or a complete fulfillment account.

Confidence
official conference and post-event programme sources
Status
100-badge availability statement; individual receipt unverified
Timeframe
2026 post-event source review
Source note
IEEE RFID 2026 official conference page, RFID Badges page, and Technical Program Chairs' welcome.
missing rights-cleared image note

No IEEE RFID 2026 Active BLE Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

Confidence
local project policy
Status
needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe
current catalogue build
Source note
badge.gallery image policy and IEEE RFID 2026 official event and RFID Badges pages plus the official technical-programme chairs' welcome.

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