Designing a Connected Store
A new report from Retail TouchPoints explores how RFID, Internet of Things and digital technologies are boosting brick-and-mortar store performance.
RFID Provides Walk-In, Walk-Out Shopping Experience
Finland’s Blockstore Group launched automated concept stores last year and now plans new sites at which shoppers can use an app to be identified as they enter a store, remove tagged items from shelves and simply exit.
BLE Chip Enables Low-Cost, Real-Time Location within Centimeters
Early adopters are testing STMicroelectronics’ new chip, leveraging the IEEE’s 5.3 specification for location, direction and sensor data tracking, for tool management.
Impinj Offers High-Performing RFID Reader Chip
The company has released its latest chip for use in challenging environments, including those in which tightly packed, fast-moving tagged products travel on a conveyor or are stored on high shelving in distribution centers.
How Smart Beacons Are Benefitting the Education Sector
Bluetooth beacons have a lot to offer school campuses through education IT solutions and eLearning.
AR and VR Create Remote Intelligence for Industrial Workers
Global businesses are using Librestream’s augmented and virtual reality-based platform to provide operators with access to data on a factory floor or maintenance site, using smartphones or wearable devices and the company’s Onsight app.
RFID News Roundup
Confidex releases label with shared RFID and NFC memory; Powercast, InPlay offer battery-free BLE sensor beacon; Study shows strong RFID tag market growth; AI company Altair launches data-analytics appliance for IoT.
How RFID Brings Intelligence to Mobile Linen Services
Specialised Linen Services’ RFID-enabled, solar-powered, unmanned unit allows Airbnb operators in Australia to deliver soiled sheets and towels, then pick up clean ones at will.
How IoT Tech Detects Wind Turbine Issues and Alerts Owners
A solution from Lattech Systems, using Ping acoustic sensors and u-blox’s low-power cellular network and software, helps wind farms identify maintenance or repair issues in near-real time, eliminating delays and reducing the need for personnel to visit sites.
RFID Provides Asset Visibility for Oil and Gas Company
Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGas has improved asset-management accuracy and inventory-counting rates with a passive UHF RFID solution piloted and deployed by ABiTech, which now manages 27,000 assets.