RFID in Retail
RFID solutions enable retailers to explore new avenues to increase revenue and improve operational efficiency ... movements tracking across the retail process, phases or floors, RFID provides real-time inventory tracking, with minimal human intervention, allowing you to: Improve security against shoplifting [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 15:01:45
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Big Three Failure Would Impact Defense Supply Chains
A failure by one or more of the Detroit Three automakers and their suppliers could put national security as well as the economy at risk, ... Monday at the Michigan Defense and Innovation Symposium at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, MI ... Guidelines for Ensuring RFID Security — medical | organizations | retail | RFID | security | technology [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 21:40:31
Automate MRO Material Ordering With RFID
Automate MRO Material Ordering With RFID Oil States International (OSI) is a $2 ... For Volkswagen Elby Gifts: The Gift of Giving - Increased Sales, Better... Wood Companies Look To RFID To Raise Yield, Reduce Carbon... Italian Retail Pilot Quantifies RFID's Many Benefits Retail Giant [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 15:17:14
RFID News Roundup
RFID News Roundup Academia RFID offers retail-specific training; Barcoding Inc. intros plug-and-play RFID reader; Savcor purchases RFID antenna company Intune Circuits; Pennsylvania hospital to deploy RTLS to track assets, patients; ODIN to help DHS implement RFID for customs [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 01:32:06
Compliance Remains King Among Consumer Goods Manufacturers, But Other Benefits Begin to Prompt RFID Adoption
Consumer goods manufacturers and retailers continue to adopt RFID largely for the sake of compliance with mandates from the likes of Wal-Mart, ... that RFID can deliver are growing in importance and will eventually overtake compliance as the leading market driver for RFID uptake in this vertical. According to research director Michael Liard, “ [more...]
Date: 2008-10-05 19:46:49
Manitowoc Completes Enodis Buyout
Manitowoc Co. said Monday it has closed on its $2.7 billion buyout of Enodis PLC, a maker of food service equipment, ... Garment Dispenser System Coupled with RFID — retail | RFID | robotics | technology taktik(z) Overview — ... Boeing Company News & Info — aerospace | boeing | Defense | maps [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 15:20:01
Manitowoc Completes Enodis Buyout
Manitowoc Co. said Monday it has closed on its $2.7 billion buyout of Enodis PLC, a maker of food service equipment, ... Garment Dispenser System Coupled with RFID — retail | RFID | robotics | technology taktik(z) Overview — ... Boeing Company News & Info — aerospace | boeing | Defense | maps [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 15:20:01
Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management
Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management Domino ISG provides real-time traffic control that eliminates the delays, errors, and omissions of manual tracking. Asset tracking systems automatically monitors movements at... Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards MIKOH Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 04:02:35
Motorola VC6096 WWAN In-Vehicle/Fixed Mount Mobile Computer
Motorola VC6096 WWAN In-Vehicle/Fixed Mount Mobile Computer Simultaneous support for GPS and telematics applications provides the information you ... ... Psion Teklogix 7530 G2 Handheld Computer Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards MIKOH Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID Antennas [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 18:31:15
Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards
Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards First credit card format intelligent ID card providing both long-range identification and read/write ... Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID Antennas Motorola VC6096 WWAN In-Vehicle/Fixed Mount Mobile Computer Psion Teklogix 7530 G2 Handheld Computer Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 19:19:51
Convergence of Technologies Is the Dominant Trend at the National Retail Federation’s 98th Annual Convention and EXPO
At this week’s National Retail Federation (NRF) convention and EXPO held at New York’s Jacob K ... . RFID is everywhere. RFID-enabled systems can now help retailers track inventory as well as develop shopper profiles to study the buying habits of consumers. RFID is also being used for contactless [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:35:05
MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR ALL!!!
All over the world we find very many business organizations. Some of them make it very big while the others stay stagnant ... applications and environments. They offer a complete RFID suite which includes readers, printers, labels ... using their wireless Hand held computers , transportation and logistics, for retails using RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 14:51:25
RFID Keeps Police Operations Safe And Secure
RFID Keeps Police Operations Safe And Secure In April of 2008 Prince William County in Virginia implemented the Compass system to provide increased ... Retail Pilot Quantifies RFID's Many Benefits more... ... Ordering With RFID ILR® Brings Visibility To Container Flow For Volkswagen Elby Gifts: The Gift of Giving [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 16:18:26
Australia’s Woolworths Abandons RFID Plan To Trace Produce Crates
Australia’s Woolworths, which runs the country’s largest supermarket chain, has given thumbs up to one RFID trial and thumbs down to another, according to a wonderfully detailed story in RFID Journal. “The retail giant tested UHF EPC Gen 2 tags at selected supermarkets and supplier distribution centers to determine the economic viability [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 07:01:39
Refurbished POS equipment
Point of sale products are extremely popular with businesses worldwide and have been found to generate excellent ROI to these businesses, ... this need. POS equipment could be used by retail establishments in the form of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) scanners, Credit card authorization terminals and the like. POS equipment could prove [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 16:13:27
Eyewear Retailer applies RFID to eliminate shoplifting
Santa Fe Optical applies EPC tags to all of the frames it sells, helping it to eliminate shoplifting and streamline inventory management ... has a number printed on it—the same number encoded to the RFID chip inside the tag. At that time, employees manually input the RFID tag number into the store’s inventory database, along with other information [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 10:10:46
Dr. Scott’s Predictions for 2009
Many Newspapers continue to struggle those that have high debt levels will consolidate, retrench through bankruptcy, or good old liquidation. ... RFID technology begins to take hold in retail starts to supplement bar code technology to enhance retail experience. .ie checkout and inventory control. Huge shot in the dark without Wal-Mart [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 05:53:50
Summer 2008 Issue of GBR Now Live
Click on the links below to read the latest articles from the GBR: Where Do Older Workers Go? ... , MBA The Last 100 Feet of the Supply Chain Can RFID navigate through the “black hole”? New ... , but they appear to fall into a “black hole” once they reach the retailer’s receiving dock. With RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-07-24 20:44:06
Time Bandits and the Walmart RFID Litmus Test
Issue #163 | Sept. 26, 2008 | by Andy Kowl Michael Dortch of the Aberdeen Group recently wrote here, on RFID Street, that old, outdated perceptions of RFID were stifling its market growth among retailers. It was the first ... IT and business executives – probably a clear majority – who have a 2-3 year gap in knowledge of RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 14:27:15
MW08 - Question #4: What is the future of proximity marketing?
With retailer’s becoming more technologically advanced (RFID, Bluetooth, wifi) what is the future of “proximity marketing” through a mobile device? ... bluetooth, SMS, mobile web, or qr codes represents real and near future opportunities ... through Bluetooth before starting their shopping. They download a widget or application [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 22:15:09
Melbourne City Council Tracks Its Car Fleet
Melbourne City Council Tracks Its Car Fleet The council estimates that once fully deployed and integrated with its employee ID system, the EPC Gen 2 RFID vehicle-tracking system will reduce labor by at least 40 staff hours per month, resulting in an annual financial savings of up to $40,000. Retailers See RFID's Potential [more...]
Date: 2008-08-18 23:34:21
Medical Study Raises New RFID Fears
Although the question of RFID safety has been debated extensively over the years, with conflicting study results, ... . This may give serious pause to some retail IT operations, who can have dozens of RFID devices in loading docks and assembly lines, in addition to trucks and even on shelves. [more...]
Date: 2008-06-27 06:29:43
TSA Efforts to Address Employee Concerns
The Transportation Security Administration reports that a stable, mature, ... : 2008 | 178 | 2 — aerospace | boeing | Defense | northrop grumman | pdf | tsa SAIC News & Info — Defense | maps | news | saic Guidelines for Ensuring RFID Security — medical | organizations | retail [more...]
Date: 2008-06-27 06:05:22
Bartronics India inks pact with Govt. of Rajasthan
Bartronics India has signed an agreement with the government of Rajasthan signifying commencement of the Bhamashah project from July 01, 2008. The company offers labeling technology to the AIDC industry with conventional barcode labels and RFID smart labels. The POS system finds application in retail outlets like super markets [more...]
Date: 2008-07-02 07:31:00
Hospital hazards, "Holy Crap" Department
We take for it granted that technology can be used to tag objects in various ways, useful and otherwise. The anti-theft devices used on retail clothing stores are a familiar example. Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) are used for this purpose as well as for security access. I have a device [more...]
Date: 2008-06-29 19:49:32
Plexidoor Electronic Dog Door
Instead of carving out a flap on your front door for your pooch to enter/exit as it pleases, ... you up in the middle of the night. This is made possible thanks to a waterproof RFID chip located ... and model, the Plexidor Electronic Dog Door will retail from $129 to $800. Source article | Add a comment [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 16:46:17
What supermarkets know about how we buy
This week's Economist has a great article looking at the work supermarkets have done to understand the buying, thinking, ... them around a retail centre (without consent) and the growth of the use of RFIDs to track people [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 18:27:45
Links of the day
Event Summary: The Future of the Social Web Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect - nice Japan site recommendation from Dirk Trends in Japan » Taspo rules bring retail back to tobacco - really interesting on two levels. Japanese smokers resisting an RFID payment system and tabacco companies making lemonade out of lemons by enjoying a way [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 00:01:49
Breaking the Costly Cycle of Cheap Compliance (Part 1)
Issue #160 | Sept. 5, 2008 | by Clarke McAllister McAllister’s Law states that mass compliance with retailer tagging mandates will not occur until the cost of encoding and applying an RFID tag is less than the cost of the tag itself ... of the RFID tag. Their hesitancy to fully embrace RFID, while understandable a couple of years ago [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 14:18:01
From The Poker Table To Greeting Cards? The RFID Future
The story of the technologist who crafted an elaborate RFID poker table, complete with an HD camera to stream real-time games globally, is interesting mostly in how he attached ultra-thin and extra-flexible RFID tags to each playing ... it aside, the concept is interesting in potential future retail uses, assuming that the per-tag [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 06:40:21
Interact With Your Merchandise
No doubt about it but 2008 has certainly been the year of ‘interactivity in retail’ - whether it be huge window displays ( ... which allowed a fair bit of interactivity with objects (and they didn’t use RFID). In order ... picked up on this Estee Lauder story and focused on the RFID aspect of it - it’s a great example [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 08:05:53
Motorola Sparrow: This Device Could Change Retail
The Motorola Sparrow is the newest and coolest thing in retail store marketing. The Motorola Sparrow is a very small device with a display that excepts credit cards, detects RFID, is WiFi ready, is capable of storing data, pictures etc, and can’t wait to be taken advantage [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 07:49:22
Product and Shopper Movement Tracked by Shopping Trip 360
Product and Shopper Movement Tracked by Shopping Trip 360 A new wireless sensor-based application provides retail and CPG companies with data ... ; PowerID expands channel network in the Americas; XIO Strategies to help DOD with RFID, IUID ... › Rehab Center Monitors Patients With Ultra-wide Band › DOD Issues RFP for Active RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 21:27:31
Carphone sees x10 interest in iPhone pre-registrations
If you’ve been reading Ben’s tale of woe trying to register to get a 3G iPhone from o2, earlier, then this piece of news is, as Kylie used to sing, especially for you. Carphone Warehouse, the nation’s behemoth mobile phone retailer, is ready ... . In fact, I’m going to see if we can place our very own contributor (and he with the RFID chip [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 09:48:11
In-Store Retail Advertising Causes as Many Woes as Wows
The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Steel describes the latest in in-store video advertising and RFID ... now is to figure out how to use them most effectively: Procter & Gamble is placing radio-frequency identification tags on products at a Metro Extra retail store in Germany so that when a customer pulls [more...]
Date: 2008-08-25 08:49:18
Taspo rules bring retail back to tobacco
Last summer, the Japanese tobacco industry imposed a rather large burden on itself by requiring the use of Taspo (tobacco passport), an RFID identification and payment card, for adults to purchase tobacco from vending machines ... campaigns, free gifts, and other benefits are simple with small retail spaces. Of course [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 04:54:35
NCR Demos New Express Entertainment DVD Kiosk
Jola Moss, marketing director of NCR, did a demo of NCR’s new kiosk at a recent trade show ... it at actual retail locations. The card reader also looks quite susceptible to phishing attacks like we saw early this year at Redbox. The system uses RFID to track the discs, which means no barcode [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 14:44:20
Check Me Out
The Motorola Sparrow was conceived to provide retail stores with a mobile point of sale device to solve increased service demands from consumers ... as you can. It combines a scanner, point of sale (POS) system, RFID, communication and credit card reading capabilities ... products are often rugged and obtrusive. If you’ve ever been to an Apple store, you [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 22:37:14
Get an exclusive identity at Geek Terminal Singapore - Singapore’s Premier Business Lounge in the Heart of the CBDwith FREE Hi - SPEED wifi and FREE ... Terminal gave themselves 3 criteria to meet;a. The members must not carry another card. Everyone knows ... to carry another card or anything extra to what they already have for that matter.b. Without a car [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 13:38:54
Designing product packages? How it’s made?
A designed product’s package fulfills several different functions it provides a protective shell for transportation and storage, acts as a vital source of information to the product’s user in today’s heavily manufactured world, and performs an important marketing role to make it stand out amid a flood of similar articles [more...]
Date: 2008-06-07 01:42:50
The way the brain buys
Retailers are making breakthroughs in understanding their customers’ minds. Here is what they know about youIT MAY have occurred to you, during the course of a dismal trawl round a supermarket indistinguishable from every other supermarket you have ever been into, to wonder why they are all the same. The answer is more sinister than depressing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 13:14:00
Microchip Additions to Clothing Possible
Link to Video Microchip Additions to Clothing Possible CHAN: Ever feel like big brother is watching you sometimes? ... a conference on Wednesday to confer upon the usage of Radio Frequency Identification in garments. This technology otherwise known as RFID employs tiny devices which can respond with identifying information [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 14:00:17
Warehouse Technology - from the old to the new
by Graham Mawdsley, Senior Consultant I first set foot in a retail distribution centre 30 years ago as a management trainee, ... flexibility, but even a small-to-medium size (and cost) example will often offer considerable ... of setbacks and ‘false dawns’, RFID still promises opportunities and benefits for introduction [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 11:08:23
The Future Has Arrived: Notable Technological Achievements in 2008 and What They Mean for the Future
The Future Has Arrived: Notable… Articles Listed by Industry Health Care Manufacturing Computer/Semiconductor Telecommunications Energy ... Nanotechnology Retail/Marketing Automobile/Aerospace Defense Aging Services Other Articles ... , 2007 Tracking Future Technology: nanotechnology, robotics, biotechnology, rfid [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 16:31:15
The Next Generation of Digital Media in Retail
Customers are now able to engage with Digital Media in a way that was never possible with passive aisle mounted large screens running TV style content. Using the latest RFID technology shoppers can now interact at the Point of Decision ... . The solution comprises of LCD screens and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tagged products [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 12:56:27
Retailer Must Have: Motorola Sparrow
Fast Company had a great product showcase about the new Motorola Sparrow recently ... one up after detecting a loyalty card or other relevant RFID tag. Want to win brownie points with a shopper ... bought Symbol Technologies, a maker of bar-code scanners, and asked the New York — based design [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 22:55:08
Drug Vial Program Considerations
Fact: Vial Safety Programs are Essentially Target Marketing of Persons Who Take Prescription Medications ... the symbol being used to denote the purpose of the device?If Same or Larger - It is Advertising ... out. You get billboards, some radio and people to visit the store.Having most of the device consist of advertising [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 17:35:00
BEAMS TOKYO CULTuART aggregates Tokyo urban culture & art
If you wanted to sum up your city in one room without making it cluttered, what would you put in there? This is precisely the challenge that TOKYO CULTuART, a new project and shop from BEAMS in Harajuku, is taking on since its opening two weeks ago. While their main business is design and apparel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 05:46:39
Intelligent Cash Registers Concept
Intelligent Cash Registers ConceptIt makes perfect sense for cash registers to get smart sooner in the future, ... at the National Retail Federation show in New York on Sunday, and it is the system that they're ... functions seamlessly with Intel's latest processors. It will feature RFID card compatibility and rely [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 00:41:00
NanoNews
David RejeskiDirectorProject on Emerging Nanotechnologies Abstract:The National Research Council (NRC), which carries out studies for the U.S. National Academies, released a report in December that highlights the significant shortfalls of the Bush administration in identifying and addressing the environment, health and safety (EHS) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 11:33:00
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