The Active Digital Identities solution enables brands and retailers to create a GS1-standard label that they can use via RFID, and that consumers can access with their QR-code-scanning smartphones.
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The company’s latest product suite is intended to simplify the deployment, management and scaling of IoT networks.
Such devices are growing in importance and can be integrated with the Internet of Things.
With the newly released spec, companies can build networks in which Bluetooth Low Energy nodes communicate with each other, as well as with hundreds or thousands of BLE-enabled devices and smartphones that move around a facility.
Combining Abeeway Master Tracker hardware with Actility’s ThingPark IoT software platform and Cisco LPWAN gateways, the solution was demonstrated at Cisco Live in Las Vegas earlier this month.
The Acuity Connect app, used with handheld RFID readers, enables hotels or other linen-using companies to leverage the tags on their towels, bedding or uniforms to track inventory at their facilities.
The Active Digital Identities solution enables brands and retailers to create a GS1-standard label that they can use via RFID, and that consumers can access with their QR-code-scanning smartphones.
As manufacturers adapt Internet of Things strategies to their business models, they should weigh these two often-overlooked elements.
With NFC technology in a viewer’s mobile phone and RFID tags deployed around a property, potential buyers can quickly get information about a building directly on their smartphones.