A Smart Supply Chain Starts With Smart People
Internet of Things technologies, on their own, will do nothing for the supply chain. But well-trained supply chain professionals could do quite a lot of good with IoT technologies.
Waze to Deploy Bluvision’s Directional-Beam Beacons
Google’s social navigation service will employ Bluvision’s new BEEKS Plus LR beacons, which offer a longer range and battery life, to pinpoint the locations of Waze users as they drive through tunnels and under bridges.
IT Firm Prepares Student-Tracking App for Swiss Resort’s Ski School
Ski and snowboard pupils will be issued LoRa-based radio tags, while access points throughout the resort will determine their location and convey it to the instructor’s smartphone via an application.
AeroScout RTLS Helps The Valley Hospital’s Staff Feel Safer
The Stanley Healthcare solution includes Wi-Fi RFID badges that nurses, physicians and other personnel can use to identify their locations and call for assistance.
Malibu Rum Serves Up NFC-Connected Bottles
The maker of the coconut-flavored liquor is carrying out a three-month pilot involving Tesco shoppers, to learn how RFID can be used to engage consumers and understand their behavior.
For ServiceMax and PTC, IoT Opens New Business Opportunity
Through a partnership with PTC, ServiceMax is giving technicians a head start on addressing service calls by allowing them to remotely tap into data regarding a machine’s health or status.
Warning to Retailers: Ignore RFID at Your Peril
When the technology reaches a tipping point, those who haven’t done their homework will struggle.
Impinj Releases xSpan Reader for Tracking Flow of Items, People
The latest in the company’s family of gateway readers with built-in steerable-beam antennas, the xSpan has two-directional tracking capacity, and is smaller and less expensive than Impinj’s xArray.
IoT News Roundup
MIT’s mind-reading radio; Greenwave buys Predixion; Silicon Controls to link tanks, cylinders to Sigfox network; Aria Systems connects cars; GE rolling out new Industrial Internet platform.
RFID News Roundup
Omni-ID broadens its active tag product line ••• Tego releases multi-platform operating system ••• Proximity Technologies launches suite of Bluetooth beacon products ••• Smartrac announces partnerships with Plastilam, Catalyst ••• AIM publishes guidance on data content and structure for passive tags ••• Atlas RFID Solutions opens new Asian office.