Lineas is capturing location and maintenance data about its thousands of freight cars as they travel around Europe and across national borders, allowing the Belgian freight company to not only improve its own railcar usage but share accurate ETA data with its customers.
A study from Zebra Technologies has analyzed the behaviors of Brazilian and Latin American consumers, sellers and decision makers in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
Manufacturing, critical infrastructure and health-care businesses have accelerated their use of Internet of Things devices, and this trend will continue in the coming year.
Project CHIP, led by the Zigbee Alliance, is expanding its efforts from a connected-home open internet standard to include commercial IoT products, with the aim of helping the industry develop solutions with Wi-Fi-, BLE- and Thread-based technologies using a standard IP backbone.
Value chains will be connected by a digital thread as digital-transformation initiatives accelerate amid the ongoing pandemic.
Flogistix has deployed a solution from UrsaLeo that provides sensor data on a 3D digital twin, with which mechanics can explore the conditions and operation of compressors or other equipment digitally, as well as provide remote remediation.
The two companies will now be part of the industry association, which seeks RFID tracking standardization in the healthcare sector.
In the Internet of Things space, artificial intelligent and machine learning can assist in identifying vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
The extendable device, developed by RFID Sherpas, enables the retailer to nearly eliminate the use of ladders when employees conduct daily RFID-based inventory counts, reducing count times and injury risk.
This past year has undeniably been a nightmare, but better times are around the corner and RFID Journal’s 2021 event lineup can help companies return to normalcy as we finally begin to put the pandemic behind us.