NFC Brings Focus to Eyewear Returns
Luxottica boosts quality and efficiency by up to 50 percent by using NFC RFID to track each pair of eyeglass frames or sunglasses during its reverse-logistics process.
IoT Technology Cuts Airport Security Waits
Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport is the latest to adopt a sensor-based system known as BlipTrack, which uses encrypted data collected from cell phones and tablets to estimate wait times—helping the airport to reduce those times by up to a third.
Tennessee Aquarium Uses Beacons to Engage Visitors
The system, using technology from CloudBeacon, enables visitors to utilize their smartphones to locate animals and play the role of researcher.
Tennessee Aquarium Uses Beacons to Engage Visitors
The system, using technology from CloudBeacon, enables visitors to utilize their smartphones to locate animals and play the role of researcher.
The Doctor Is In… Your Bathroom
Wireless technology and networking appear to be ushering in the return of the house call. But sometimes, medicine and technology make strange bedfellows.
North York General Hospital Uses RFID to Restock Medication Trays
The Toronto medical facility’s pharmacy says its adoption of the Intelliguard Kit and Tray Management System is saving hours of labor and eliminating errors.
Hospitals Embrace Passive Applications
Health-care managers pave their own path to RFID adoption.
The NFL’s Next-Generation Statistics
At this year’s LIVE! event, Hall of Fame inductee and NFL Network analyst Marshall Faulk will discuss the use of RFID technology to gather a level of statistics not possible in the past, as well as what it means for viewers, teams and coaches.
GS1 US Survey Finds Strong RFID Adoption
The results, released this week, found that 78 percent of retailers received at least some RFID-tagged merchandise (primarily apparel and footwear), with those retailers receiving, on average, 47 percent of those goods with EPC UHF RFID inlays.
IOT News Roundup
Smart-MEMPHIS Consortium developing energy-harvesting sensors for medical, industrial applications; Recon Instruments, APX Labs join forces for workplace smart glasses; Numerex launches SmartGuide global tracking offering; Linear Technology announces SmartMesh IP development kit for developers.