Allrecipes Uses Beacons to Spice Up App
Footmarks’ beacon platform, installed at Marc’s stores in Ohio, provides Dinner Spinner app users with recipes tailored to their location, weather and current product sales.
Tegu Uses Smart Fixtures to Build Sales
The construction-toy company has installed RFID-enabled display cases at stores, enabling it to track which products are sold, automatically bill the retailer accordingly and order replacements.
Impinj Partners With Intel on Collaborative Offerings
Impinj will now sell Intel’s Retail Sensor Platform reader and gateway as part of its own solutions to integrators for inventory management in stores.
Internet of Things May Help Agencies Respond to Zika
An IoT consultancy is developing a cloud-controlled digital microscope that could accelerate the Zika virus screening activities of health organizations.
The IoT Could Make Retailers’ Dreams About RFID Come True
A startup called Stuffstr shows how consumers, with the help of a smartphone app, could be benefiting from brands embedding RFID tags into their products.
RFID Journal to Hold Retail and Apparel Event in NYC
The one-day conference, to be held on Oct. 6, is designed to help retailers and brand owners learn how they can benefit from deploying RFID.
Minding the Gap: Three IoT Skills Your Business Needs Today
Organizations looking to exploit business opportunities around the Internet of Things need to fortify their workforces with expertise in cloud computing and NoSQL, network security, and rapid prototyping.
Excuses, Excuses!
Retailers that claim RFID is “too difficult” are misinformed, reluctant to acknowledge inefficiencies in their stores or adverse to change.
Are Smart Guns the Answer?
In the wake of the mass shooting at a nightclub in Florida, maybe it’s time to take a serious look at RFID-enabled guns.
THINaër Launches Low-Cost Beacon-based RTLS
Health-care and aerospace companies are already using the firm’s solution to determine the locations and movements of items and individuals, and to analyze that data in terms of efficiency, maintenance or other factors.