A restaurant chain is trialing the RFID functionality in Avery Dennison’s Freshmarx solution to ensure food is delivered fresh and at appropriate temperatures, using the company’s microwave-safe tags, while retailers are planning to expand existing pilots of RFID systems to include cosmetics and perfumes.
A waste-management firm and a high-value goods logistics provider are piloting a solution from Barcoding Inc., using CalAmp sensor devices and tags as well as software to capture and manage data about goods—even when they are in transit—via a combination of cellular, Wi-Fi, BLE and other technologies.
How can companies ensure that their Internet of Things technologies are sustainable and effective, work seamlessly, and create a return on investment?
As in years past, exhibitors were touting solutions that require retailers to adopt RFID before they will be effective.
Here are a few ways in which the Internet of Things landscape will likely evolve this year.
Here are a few ways in which the Internet of Things landscape will likely evolve this year.
Finnish reindeer herders are testing a LoRaWAN-based solution from Digita and Actility on several dozen alpha female reindeer, in order to track herds of thousands of animals and detect when they may be in danger from predators or vehicles.
AT&T expands smart cities offerings with structure-monitoring solution for U.S. railways, roadways ••• Quanergy, Cisco provide smart-city connected roadway solutions ••• Cybeats raises seed round of investment, led by iNovia Capital, for enterprise IoT infrastructure ••• InfluxData integrates Time Series platform with ThingWorx to simplify IoT developer experience ••• Phunware adds Acuity Brands’ IoT indoor positioning solution to its mapping, navigation and wayfinding offering ••• Smartrac showcases what ‘Internet of Your Things’ has in store ••• InfluxData strengthens position in DevOps monitoring, IoT market ••• Skills shortage in agritech sector holding back IoT innovation, according to Inmarsat.
Nedap intros slim mobile access-control reader ••• Fujitsu Frontech North America unveils biometric customer-authentication, RFID garment-tracking solutions ••• Tyco Retail Solutions collaborates with Google Cloud to power store solutions for digital transformation ••• Ambiq Micro releases Bluetooth 5 Low Energy microcrontrollers ••• INIT Innovation in Transportation secures HQ with STid, ABS Technology, SMARTContactless solutions ••• Atlas RFID Solutions adds bar-code scanning to mobile devices.
Finnish reindeer herders are testing a LoRaWAN-based solution from Digita and Actility on several dozen alpha female reindeer, in order to track herds of thousands of animals and detect when they may be in danger from predators or vehicles.