Nations and partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization can now purchase SCT Technology’s active RFID- and GPS-based hardware and software directly from the NATO Support and Procurement Agency, as its use of wireless technologies to track containers, palletized goods and vehicles throughout the supply chain grows.
The solution, provided by Milestone Integrated Systems and using Keonn technology, enables the company’s stores to track inventory via RFID paper labels and hard tags as goods move around the sales floor, as well as when they are purchased and removed from the premises.
The new organization, which includes technology companies and end users among its members, intends to promote interoperable standards while working to ensure co-existence with W-Fi standards.
Some companies want to just deploy a radio frequency identification system without putting much thought into it, and that’s a mistake.
Banyan Hills Technologies’ CEO takes a look at what’s in store for the Internet of Things.
Ecoingot’s IoT-based system employs blockchain technology and HF RFID-based connectivity from Compass Marketing, enabling shoppers to gain information regarding the carbon emissions related to products before making a purchase, and to buy credits or offset carbon use, via the company’s app and a public ledger.
Tamarack Products integrates Lake Image Systems tech to print variable information on RFID tags ••• Luxochain combines NFC, RFID, blockchain, fingerprint authentication to thwart counterfeiting ••• Amazon to join Zigbee Alliance board of directors ••• IoT company Rutronik to distribute Insight SiP Bluetooth and RF antenna modules ••• C3 provides IoT and AI technologies to European power utility Enel ••• Ericsson intros cellular IoT solutions, identifies industry market segments.
RFID Journal announced today that SML RFID will be the Cornerstone Sponsor for its 17th annual LIVE! conference and exhibition, to be held in April, as well as a Silver Sponsor at RFID Journal LIVE! Retail @ RetailX, taking place in June.
Tool-tracking solutions based on RFID and the Industrial Internet of Things increase tool traceability and availability, reduce tool search times and bring down asset-carrying costs.
A report prepared by the BR-500 Consortium, with support from BNDES, proposes to standardize toll collection via RFID tags.