The company’s 2019 “Intelligent Enterprise Index” finds greater planning is taking place among Internet of Things adopters in retail, manufacturing, health care and logistics to ensure that systems are secure and that data can be potentially shared with partners.
Many companies have an outdated view of radio frequency identification technology, but you can’t educate people who don’t want to learn.
The forest products company has been leading an effort to introduce paper-based RFID tags; it now has the capacity to sell its five new retail RFID ECO labels to service bureaus at a rate of 500 to 800 million annually.
Brighter AB’s Actiste system, being piloted in the United Arab Emirates, tests glucose levels and administers insulin with a single device, then saves the related data and forwards it to authorized parties, such as doctors and family members.
As colleges strive to attract the best students, they must provide an autonomous experience that is intuitive, personalized and connected; the Internet of Things can help.
T-Systems and Valid have jointly developed a system to identify stored products and optimize distribution center operations.
Smartrac offers UHF RFID beer keg tags; JADAK unveils RFID starter kit; HID Global helps BigWise add fingerprint biometric authentication to POS solution; Traxens selects AVSystem IoT platform for smart container management; Nordic Semiconductor intros modem based on its LTE-M/NB-IoT SiP; Thingstream launches connectivity solution for LoRaWAN networks; OptConnect adds Banyan Hills Technologies’ IoT platform canopy to its development kits.
Companies often rush into a quick solution without educating themselves about RFID, and that is a mistake.
Several companies are utilizing HID Global’s Trusted Tag services, which combine cloud authentication with Near Field Communication tags to identify counterfeit products.
Lynn Street Market, a corner grocery in Danville, Va., opened this month with a 12-tap beer wall that allows shoppers to pour their own drink by tapping an RFID card against the wall’s readers to control and pay for their pour into a glass or growler.