The VMBeacon system includes beacons and a smartphone app that enables shoppers to learn more about a garment on display in a store or window, and to purchase that product online—even if the store is closed.
Powercast Corp. and Vanguard ID co-developed the tag, which uses power harvested from an interrogator to energize sensors and transmit that sensor data back to the reader, up to 25 feet away.
After building the best-known brand in the RFID market and positioning itself as the gorilla, Motorola sells its RFID business to Zebra Technologies.
The Q120, with a 3-meter read range, is sized to fit into a small alcove or other location where it is less likely to be damaged in a manufacturing environment.
The solution, from Dominate RFID, consists of an RFID reader that plugs into a smartphone or tablet running an app for managing lenses, cameras and other equipment fitted with passive UHF tags.
Our LIVE! event is critical for matching buyers and sellers, but it also benefits the RFID industry in less obvious ways.
Jamison RFID introduces NeWave antenna portals; Smartrac announces plans for tags made with Impinj Monza R6 chip, partnership with Hanmi IT; Zebra names Working Bikes as winner of ‘Imagine More’ social-media contest; Xtreme RFID unveils Ideate Service for custom tag development; Infinx Services offers anti-counterfeiting and product-validation solution.
The system, using Checkpoint software and Mojix’s OmniSense UHF reader and antenna array, is being tested by a high-value apparel retailer to make inventory tracking for replenishment and business analytics “hands-free.”
The Indian company’s new offerings are designed to bring visibility to very different industries—one for monitoring the maintenance of equipment or parts, another that enables private tour businesses to track clients and their baggage.
With the purchase of a major supplier of fixed and handheld RFID readers, Zebra will now be one of the world’s largest providers of RFID hardware, including printers, encoders and readers, as well as software.