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A new RFID era with MANICA Vision giving readers the eyes they always needed

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…