Researchers at Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed wireless devices that can detect the presence of hazardous gases in the atmosphere.
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The Best of the Best
This year’s RFID Journal Award winners included Joseph Andraski, Bechtel, Hy-Vee, Marks & Spencer, NXP Semiconductors, Post Foods, Skyview High School and the Taiwan Fiscal Information Agency.
Electronic Invoices Reduce Paper Consumption
The Taiwan Fiscal Information Agency uses RFID and NFC technologies to enable shoppers to receive e-receipts.
RFID Protects Students and Teachers
Skyview High School deployed a safety solution that can summon help in a disciplinary, medical or violent emergency.
Post Foods Adds NFC to Cereal Marketing Mix
Concertgoers accessed custom songs and video with their smartphones.
Smarter Things
NXP’s NTAG I²C NFC chip enables consumers and businesspeople to use smartphones to communicate with myriad electronic devices, cars and buildings.
Marks & Spencer Embraces Change
Based on the benefits achieved from RFID-tracking all apparel—and recognizing the importance of omnichannel shopping—the U.K. retailer plans to tag all general merchandise in stores.
Hy-Vee Supermarkets Track Perishables to Ensure Freshness
Suppliers include RFID temperature tags in shipments to the retailer’s distribution centers, and the DCs reuse the tags to monitor goods en route to the stores.
RFID Helps Bechtel Manage a Megaproject
The engineering and construction giant is tracking materials from mainland storage areas to three sites on a remote island, to ensure the correct materials arrive at the right place on time.
Item-level Idealist
Joseph Andraski saw the value of RFID in retail and worked energetically to promote its adoption.
Swedish Men’s Shirts Provide Off-the-Cuff Info
Four Levent has begun manufacturing and marketing men’s dress shirts with sewn-in NFC RFID tags, enabling users to write data such as business card information that others can retrieve via a smartphone.
Honoring the Best in RFID
Presenting the winners of the 2014 RFID Journal Awards.