BOPIS May Drive RFID Adoption in Retail
“Buy online, pick up in store” is becoming increasingly popular around the world, but it’s placing greater demands on retailers to have accurate, near-real-time data.
IoT-Based Drone Seeks Treasure for History Channel
PrecisionHawk brought a LIDAR-based drone with wireless connectivity to map out the terrain in the Philippine jungles, in order to search for the hiding places that Japanese soldiers might have used for the treasure they captured while occupying the island during World War II.
RFID News Roundup
RFID Journal webinar helps retailers, suppliers improve revenues ••• Nedap, MishiPay partner on RFID mobile self-checkout system ••• BluEpyc intros BLE beacon with optional accelerometer, temperature-humidity sensor ••• Hazelcast unveils streaming engine for IoT, edge, cloud environments ••• Dodge Data & Analytics, Triax Technologies study IoT tech for construction risk management ••• New Boundary Technologies, Radio Bridge add IoT applications to long-range wireless sensors.
New Zebra Reader Promises Real-Time RFID Data Capture
The company’s ATR7000 overhead reader provides real-time location data for retailers and warehouses using UHF RFID tags on assets, inventory and personnel, while a hybrid solution with an optical camera and an RFID reader tracks space usage as trailers or containers are packed.
UHF Reading Drone Tracks Vehicles, Assets
FEIG Electronics has teamed up with Tiger Labs and Congruex to develop a drone that can capture passive UHF RFID tag reads from a height of 25 feet, then forward that data, along with GPS-based location information, via Wi-Fi, LoRa or Zigbee.
Learn RFID Best Practices from BAE Systems
The presentation the company delivered at RFID Journal LIVE! 2019 offers valuable lessons to any business that wants to deploy an RFID solution successfully.
Push-Button Active RFID Tag Delivers Alerting to Workers, Patients
GuardRFID’s Personnel Tag, which the company calls the smallest wearable alerting device, can be worn as a wristband or pendant by industrial workers, health-care providers or patients.
The Brave New World of Health-Care IoT Is Enticing—But Proceed With Caution
Defining limits enables companies to get the most out of the Internet of Things.
Mammut Uses NFC to Engage Customers
The European climbing and outdoor recreation retailer is using an NFC system from Smartrac Technology Group to track inventory through the supply chain, and to engage with shoppers long after they make their purchases.
RFID News Roundup
Primera Technology intros on-demand color RFID label printer ••• Seagull Scientific releases labeling software for RFID, smart cards, more ••• Blue Bite, r-pac International partner on RFID supply chain solution ••• Avery Dennison opens intelligent label solutions lab in India ••• UWINLOC unveils new line of industrial tracking tags ••• PragmatIC reaches 20-million order milestone for flexible ICs ••• Eclipse Foundation releases IoT developer survey results.