Sierra Monitor expands suite of industrial IoT products; new Wi-Fi deadbolt from Brink’s; Zebra and Atmel demonstrate sensor system for refrigeration monitoring; research predicts 35 percent CAGR on IIoT spending; Brother announces NFC-enabled printer, scanner; CDC occupational health center issues RFI on sensor systems.
The system, from Visible Assets, will enable Eagle Eye Innovation—a consortium of 30 rental agencies—to track the locations of plates at construction sites.
A control systems engineer has created a solution that uses the Pebble smart watch to alert assembly line workers regarding production faults, and says it has boosted productivity—and morale.
Checkpoint intros micro RFID label for health, beauty retail; pilots meat-tracking solution ••• Smartrac unveils dual-frequency RFID inlay, new in-store analytics solution ••• GlobeRanger expands suite of aviation RFID offerings, gets FAA letter of operational suitability ••• Tyco Retail Solutions debuts RFID-enabled storefront shrink-visibility application ••• Juniper announces Mesa 2 Rugged Tablet with Windows 10 and optional UHF RFID ••• Omni-ID secures $21 million in new funding ••• NXP and Guala Closures to develop NFC bottle closures for wine and spirits.
The companies will join an end-user panel discussing RFID’s past, present and future at RFID Journal’s 14th annual LIVE! conference, to be held on May 3-5, in Orlando, Fla.
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The company is expanding its usage-based insurance products by offering easy ways for some Subaru owners to share data.
The Dandy Lab, a men’s boutique, says that the system has increased customer retention by 20 percent. Central Working, an office and workspace provider, has been using the system for the past two years.
The Surgical Safety Scanner system enables Great Lakes Foot and Ankle Specialists to reduce tool-counting times, prevent the loss of medical instruments, and identify which tools were used in surgery and sterilized—as well as when this occurred.
For the first time, daily news about radio frequency identification and its many business and consumer applications will be available to people in Japan in their native language.