Sewio launched its Digital Hero contest in September, offering enablement kits to three finalists with the best ideas, and received nearly six times the number of responses it expected, ranging from industrial to healthcare and COVID-19 management.
Speakers on IoP Journal World’s international panel concluded that opportunities for Internet of Packaging deployments are on the rise in businesses across a range of industries.
As food producers and retailers test the system for tracking goods through production, supply chains and stores, the company is partnering with Microsoft to provide AI features that can help users identify when products might expire, which planograms are most successful and how sales could be improved.
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Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the annual conference and exhibition has been rescheduled from its original April dates.
A system from Cooper Lighting Solutions provides BLE-based data, with Vizzia software for asset and people management via light fixtures, in order to provide indoor locating without a reader infrastructure or batteries.
Aerospace and automotive firms are among those tracking potential shock to goods in the supply chain with SpotSee’s RFID-enabled ShockWatch, which uses a mechanical switch and RFID interrogation to wirelessly indicate if a potentially damaging impact has occurred.
The medical industry has increased its investment in artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies for the purposes of drug discovery, medical imaging and predictive diagnosis.
The technology, developed at Penn State University, consists of a sensor array that can be applied to a substrate at low temperature and dissolve in warm water, along with an NFC or other wireless transmission module, to transmit data collected by sensors, such as temperature, heart rate or blood-oxygen levels.
The new UHF reader gate is already in use by European manufacturers and logistics providers to identify which tagged goods move through dock doors or pass on conveyors to or through an assembly site.