Inventory Accuracy Without RFID?
Some software providers are promising to improve retailers’ inventory accuracy. Here’s why algorithms alone won’t work.
New Label Changes Displayed Price Data With Power from RFID
Powercast’s new Batteryless Electronic UHF Retail Price Tag receives pricing information from an RFID interrogator, while also harvesting the RF energy, then uses that energy to change the price accordingly on its display.
Buried Alive
How to manage the influx of IoT data to improve your product.
Pinnpoint, Smartrac Team Up With Lexmark for RFID Printing
The resultant on-demand printing solutions allow shippers to automatically view the status of returned goods via RFID tag reads, enabling the growing reverse logistics model for online shopping.
RFID News Roundup
Wade Garcia & Associates, InCom enter licensing agreement for RFID attendance-taking system ••• iDTRONIC releases new handheld RFID computer ••• STMicroelectronics’ NFC technology powers new TCL communication smartphone ••• Balluff magnetic mount simplifies RFID integration ••• Electric Imp intros cellular IoT service ••• Quuppa to host partner event for indoor location services.
RFID-enabled Organoids Offer Aid in Scientific Research
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have conducted a test of their UHF RFID-enabled miniature human organs to enable high-volume testing of the tissues in pharmaceutical and implant development.
Sorting Out Security: Making Sense of Today’s Solutions
Security at the process level is essential to creating an immunity to the cyberattacks of tomorrow.
Airline Industry Embraces RFID Baggage Tracking
The IATA’s board voted at its general meeting to develop a standard within one year for using RFID to track luggage. The industry body aims to start rolling the technology out globally in 2020.
Drone RFID Read Rate Hovers Near 100 Percent in Oil Fields
Researchers at Cal Poly, using RFID technology from technology company Process Expert, confirmed in three pipe-tracking applications that passive RFID tags could be read at near-perfect rates while in flight around 12 feet above those pipes.
Brazilian Retail Chain Reduces Overtime Costs
Lojas Ki Barato’s use of RFID has improved inventory control, decreased expenses and increased employee efficiency.