The high-speed doors were opening inadvertently to allow forklift drivers access to freezers and coolers, so the retailer operating that warehouse acquired a battery-assisted passive RFID solution from TagMaster to pinpoint a forklift’s location, confirm a driver’s authorization to enter, prompt the subsequent door opening and store the related data.
Technologies such as RFID, NFC, digital printing and QR codes, among others, are making packaging ever smarter.
The company reports that its Universal MC adhesive tags offer a variety of options, including printable-onsite or pre-printed tags that can be ruggedized and offer a read range of 7 or 15 feet, at about 40 percent of the cost of similar on-metal tags on the market.
How can orchestration remedy the Internet of Things problems that plague so many businesses?
RTV Engineering has built a solution leveraging RF Controls’ overhead reader and antenna system to track the locations of a manufacturer’s bins of materials as they are stacked seven bins high on metal racks, thereby enabling the company to know where its components and materials are located in real time.