Data warehousing and analytics firm Teradata this week announced the new Retail Advanced Business Analytics & RFID Lab. The lab is targeted at assisting retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers leverage and analyze data captured from across their supply chains by RFID and other technology.
The two companies are launching a trial of Near Field Communication technology in Seoul, Korea, that will let participants use their mobile phones to download music, unlock doors and pay for goods and services.
An NCR-sponsored poll of manufacturers and retailers indicates manufacturers have taken the lead in RFID implementation, spurring adoption by retailers.
Teradata offering RFID data analytics; AEA criticizes DHS report on RFID; MicroTrak acquires RFID company Fibergrations; HID acquiring card printer-encoder company.
As its first foray into wireless sensor mesh networking, the technology company is selling development kits with wireless sensor network technology developed by Crossbow.
Baird has released its May report. The sixteen-page document is a worthwhile read for anyone requiring an overview of the industry’s last 30 days. For those without time to do so, we have reprinted here the report’s summary.
The company is rolling out an RFID-enabled hardware and services platform, initially to the rejuvenated rail industry and companies shipping by rail.
ODIN is tasked with outfitting all the military’s Defense Distribution Centers with RFID hardware to collect data from RFID-tagged military consignments.
The RFID equipment provider says it will use the funding to add offerings for the luggage-tracking and postal and courier markets, and to increase its manufacturing capacity.
The Finnish drugmaker says it learned a lot about how to tag and track individual items, and has gained insight into how to use RFID to track raw materials and packaging.
In this guest column, Manufacturing Insights’ Bob Ferrari argues that while RFID will be the most significant disruptive technology for enabling the sense and respond supply chain, it is but one piece of the overall solution, and a piece whose current costs still present an ROI challenge.
The U.S. telecom giant is partnering with BEA, Symbol and Intel to provide an offering that includes design, deployment, integration and management of RFID systems.