Jooki, a speaker system designed for small children, is now enabled to stream playlists from a user’s Spotify Premium account; each playlist is linked to the Jooki “star” figurine or token, with a built-in tag transmitting to a reader in the speaker.
The future is foggy for large, distributed Internet of Things infrastructures—and that’s a good thing.
RFID is just one element—a foundational element—of any company’s digital transformation efforts. Here are the different technologies required at each stage of change.
With the company’s ZC300 and ZC350 printers, businesses will be able to print badges, either in batches or on demand, that will allow them to identify mustering individuals during emergencies, count students and faculty attendance at schools, or better manage exhibits at trade shows based on attendee traffic.
TrackX Holdings, Impinj partner on enterprise asset-management solutions ••• Zigbee Alliance selected for smart-meter rollout to every home in Great Britain ••• Waltonchain chooses Silictec RFID chips for IoT ••• Dell Technologies, Microsoft collaborate on IoT solutions ••• SML RFID to showcase its tags, software for retail ••• KeyMe wins multi-year agreement with Albertsons for RFID keys.