McKinsey and Mall of America have teamed up to offer a store where shoppers can explore content about products using hot spots, touch screens and magic mirrors, along with UHF RFID-based inventory management.
When it comes to helping hospitals save more lives, the technology cannot be overestimated.
Amadeus has teamed up with Sigfox to offer an IoT-based solution that tracks the locations of bags or assets inside and outside of airports to reduce the risk of loss.
Indonesia’s Gojek is supplying RFID-enabled helmets and jackets to its millions of contractors, thereby better managing where the products are distributed so that they are available in the right sizes; in the future, it plans to track maintenance to keep them in good working order.
International airline check-in automation has taken a step forward with the adoption of NFC technology to recognize passports.
Being smarter than most of the people you’ve known can lead to overestimating your skills and making terrible business decisions.
With the Internet of Things growing at an ever-fast rate, the coming year will afford many new opportunities to collect and process data at the edge.
Sensormatic Solutions’ TrueVUE system now includes shrink management as part of its software-as-a-service stack, enabling retailers to begin identifying items that are removed from a store, and thereby ensuring inventory can be replaced.
RFID ticket provider FineLine Technologies acquires Consolidated Printing; Datamars launches integration software for self-deployed RFID laundry system; ViewTag chooses Powercast chipset for RFID-BLE bag tag; Telensa, LIGMAN provide smart street lighting, smart city sensing in APAC; Pulse Secure, Nozomi Networks team up for secure IIoT connectivity; IoT company KORE acquires Integron; IKEA joins Zigbee Alliance board of directors; Ergosense, Thingstream partner on IoT facility-management solution.
The company has improved its goods-circulation processes thanks to the use of radio frequency identification technology, offering it greater agility.