He did what all experts do in such a situation; he wiped down and polished the SIM, cleaned up the PCB board ... electronics firing back to life on his screen
Most common RFID tags are passive. They have no power source. They sit there, waiting for a reader to activate them with radio waves. They reflect back ...
You probably do not know that 80% of the sensors in European cars are made here, or that BG has the second largest e-bike manufacturing sector on the continent.