Hayato Information is rolling out MANICA Vision in January 2026 and the pitch is simple. RFID on its own misses things. It cannot tell if two people slipped through a gate on one tag or if a pile of items was actually scanned. After twenty years in RFID software, the company finally did the obvious thing. Give the reader a pair of eyes.
MANICA Vision pairs an RFID reader with an AI camera and runs everything on edge hardware like Raspberry Pi5 and Hailo accelerators. No cloud, no lag, no security drama. The camera counts what is happening in front of the reader while the RFID system checks the tags. The first two apps are pretty direct. A tailgating detection tool that flags when multiple people walk in on a single authentication and a counting app that compares visual item counts with tag reads to instantly spot misses or extras.
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The setup works with existing RFID environments which means companies don’t have to rip out their old gear. It also hints at where this is going. Manufacturing task detection and smarter logistics sorting are already on the roadmap. This is RFID finally catching up to the real world instead of guessing its way through it.

