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NFC-enabled smartphones have changed the way people interact with their world, and brand owners can take advantage of the technology in most people’s pockets to interact with consumers in a whole new way. Now with the tap of a phone, an NFC-enabled poster, magazine advertisement, or even a three-dimensional object such as a statue becomes…
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Common RFID WIP Applications: Prompt employees when incorrect or correct material is placed in a work area or conveyor belt. Track materials at all stages of production. Integrate light stacks with your Reader’s GPIO ports for visual and audio prompting. Stream data from multiple Conveyor locations or stations. Integrate with ODBC Compliant Databases (Access, Oracle,…
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RFID technology can be employed to help in the management of deliveries to customers. Items can either be individually identified by applying a radio frequency identification chip to each individual item, or pallets containing similar items can be marked. The individual items or pallets can then be tracked and movement automatically recorded. The RFID equipment…
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NXP Semiconductors has concluded a successful study of embedded passive RFID tags in the license plates of more than 100 military vehicles. The study, conducted for the past 12 months at a military base in the Netherlands, confirmed the secure and reliable use of RFID for vehicle identification in various weather conditions and at speeds…
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Parking technology has finally caught up to our on-the-go culture: pay without paying attention. Researchers have built a device that does for parking lots what radio transponders do for highway tolls. You park, it keeps track. The near field communications (NFC) system, consists of RFID Windshield Tag, parking lot transceivers that read tags, and a central…
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RFID technology eliminates the myriad issues that come with manual container tracking. Indexing check-in/check-out by hand is error-prone – miss (or misplace) a single asset, and it’s likely gone forever – at great expense to the manufacturer. Barcode-based tracking systems are only slightly better; the manual element (and its potential for error) still remains, resulting…
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Long checkout lines at the grocery store are one of the biggest complaints about the shopping experience. Soon, these lines could disappear when the Code(UPC) bar code is replaced by smart labels, also called radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. RFID tags are intelligent bar codes that can talk to a networked system to track every…
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