Consumer and Industrial IoT Merge at Bosch Assembly Plant
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.
RFID News Roundup
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.
Airbus, Marks & Spencer, Vail Resorts Help Commemorate RFID Journal Awards’ 10th Anniversary
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.
Can RFID Drones Help to Manage Bridge Structural Safety?
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Liberty Mutual Partners With Subaru on Usage-Based Insurance
The company is expanding its usage-based insurance products by offering easy ways for some Subaru owners to share data.
London Businesses Adopt Reward Technology’s RFID Solution
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.
Podiatry Clinic Steps Into RFID for Tool Tracking
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.
RFID Journal Launches Japanese-Language Website
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.
Innovation Gets Physical
Rapid advances in digital technologies are beginning to be matched by technologies that improve the physical world—one of which is RFID.
The Right Way to Encode RFID Tags for Consumer Products
Brand owners, retailers and solution providers must understand how to use the SGTIN standard.