Delta Hotels by Marriott implements ASSA ABLOY RFID door locks ••• Schreiner PrinTrust provides RFID smart-parking solution to APCOA ••• Taoglas opens IoT design and support center in Minneapolis ••• VMware offers platform to facilitate IoT deployment ••• Pod Group provides secure IoT connectivity for Klevio’s smart door entry app ••• Impinj intros new RFID readers for E.U. upper frequency band.
MSM Solutions’ replenishment system is providing an automotive factory with UHF RFID-based data regarding the parts moving onto the assembly floor and empty racks returning from the floor, thereby ensuring the manufacturing system has just-in-time access to those parts.
Metalcraft’s Temperature Sensor Kit enables systems integrators or their customers to test UHF RFID-based temperature-sensing systems for specific use cases, without large investments in software or integration.
Retailers can apply Avery Dennison’s ShieldSense RFID Blocking Material to walls, barriers or other surfaces where stray RFID reads could occur, simply by peeling off the back and rolling it out.
Only time will tell which standards will be the most successful.
“Buy online, pick up in store” is becoming increasingly popular around the world, but it’s placing greater demands on retailers to have accurate, near-real-time data.
PrecisionHawk brought a LIDAR-based drone with wireless connectivity to map out the terrain in the Philippine jungles, in order to search for the hiding places that Japanese soldiers might have used for the treasure they captured while occupying the island during World War II.
RFID Journal webinar helps retailers, suppliers improve revenues ••• Nedap, MishiPay partner on RFID mobile self-checkout system ••• BluEpyc intros BLE beacon with optional accelerometer, temperature-humidity sensor ••• Hazelcast unveils streaming engine for IoT, edge, cloud environments ••• Dodge Data & Analytics, Triax Technologies study IoT tech for construction risk management ••• New Boundary Technologies, Radio Bridge add IoT applications to long-range wireless sensors.
The company’s ATR7000 overhead reader provides real-time location data for retailers and warehouses using UHF RFID tags on assets, inventory and personnel, while a hybrid solution with an optical camera and an RFID reader tracks space usage as trailers or containers are packed.
FEIG Electronics has teamed up with Tiger Labs and Congruex to develop a drone that can capture passive UHF RFID tag reads from a height of 25 feet, then forward that data, along with GPS-based location information, via Wi-Fi, LoRa or Zigbee.
The presentation the company delivered at RFID Journal LIVE! 2019 offers valuable lessons to any business that wants to deploy an RFID solution successfully.
GuardRFID’s Personnel Tag, which the company calls the smallest wearable alerting device, can be worn as a wristband or pendant by industrial workers, health-care providers or patients.