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RFID News Roundup

SML Group intros smaller, more sensitive inlay ••• CISC Semiconductor unveils UHF RFID real-time sniffer ••• eAgile launches tiny UHF inlay for pharmaceutical, health-care items and more ••• Most retailers ready for Internet of Things, Zebra survey finds ••• JW Marriott Hotel Santo Domingo implements InvoTech uniform and linen system ••• Toshiba launches SDHC memory card with built-in NFC ••• PLS acquires RTI Manager to offer complete RFID-enabled pallet/container tracking solution.

Tags: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Labeling, Retail, Innovation, RFID Channel, NFC, Smart Products, Internet of Things

• RFID Journal LIVE! 2015 to Feature Eight Preconference Seminars
• RFID Journal Introduces Internet of Things Conference
• RFID News Roundup
• RFID Journal Launches Internet of Things Journal
• Aki Choklat Brings Authentication and Personalization to Luxury Bags
• NFC Promotion Boosts Pepsi's Midwest Sales
• RFID News Roundup
• Swedish Men's Shirts Provide Off-the-Cuff Info
• Zebra Launches Zatar 'Internet of Things' Service for RFID Readers, Networked Devices

Smart Products Features

Unlocking the Internet of Things

The key is EPCIS, a universal business language that brings value to IoT applications.

Tags: Smart Products, Internet of Things

Smart Products Editor's Notes

• The Internet of Things Journal
• Next Up: A Passive UHF Reader in Your Phone

Smart Products Expert Views

A New Auto-ID Integration Standard Could Play a Big IoT Role

An OPC UA companion standard being developed by AIM and the OPC Foundation represents an important step toward greatly simplifying the integration of identification systems, and could thus become an essential base for the Internet of Things.

Tags: Standards, Auto-ID, Smart Products, Internet of Things

• An Interview With Geoffrey Moore
• The IoT Challenge
• The Real World of Active RFID Tags

Smart Products How To Articles

How to Benefit From the Internet of Things

RFID lets businesses make smart connections, to automate processes, improve customer loyalty and cut costs with remote monitoring.

Tags: Manufacturing, Retail, Auto-ID, Smart Products, Internet of Things, Automation

Smart Products White Papers

• Attaining IoT Value: How to Move from Connecting Things to Capturing Insights
  Published December 2014
  Cisco estimates that the Internet of Everything (IoE)—the networked connection of people, processes, data, and things—will generate $19 trillion for the private and public sectors between 2013 and 2022. This white paper, written by Andy Noronha, Robert Moriarty, Kathy O'Connell and Nicola Villa, combines original and secondary research, as well as economic analysis, to provide a roadmap for maximizing value from IoT investments. It also explains why, in the worlds of the IoT and the IoE, the combination of edge computing/analytics and data center/cloud is essential to driving actionable insights that produce improved business outcomes. (20 pages)
  Tags: Emerging Technologies, Smart Products, Internet of Things
• What the Internet of Things Needs to Become a Reality
  Published December 2014
  The Internet of Things comprises smart machines interacting and communicating with other machines, objects, environments and infrastructures. As a result, huge volumes of data are being generated, and that information is being processed into useful actions that can command and control things to make people's lives easier and safer—and to reduce environmental impact. In this white paper, Freescale and ARM discuss what the IoT needs to become a reality. (16 pages)
  Tags: Innovation, Smart Products, Internet of Things