Traditionally, a wide chasm between what enterprise asset management (EAM) systems and asset tracking systems do for manufacturers has limited their benefit. Manufacturers have been unable to connect their assets to customer-facing projects, resulting in costly blind spots in their business operations. At one end of the spectrum are EAM systems, like ERP and inventory…
RFID technology has the capability to both greatly enhance and protect the lives of consumers, and also revolutionize the way companies do business. As the most flexible auto-identification technology, RFID Tag can be used to track and monitor the physical world automatically and with accuracy. RFID can tell you what an object is, where it…
Omni-Channel and RFID Go Hand in Hand You may already know that omni-channel and RFID are intrinsically linked. In recent years I’ve heard many retailers claim that they can’t focus on RFID because they are prioritizing on omni-channel initiatives. That statement is so counter intuitive. So it was refreshing to hear several retailers take on…
RFID use can be a controversial topic when libraries choose to converttheir collections to be able to take advantage of the technology. Thereis little doubt that RFID will become more ubiquitous in the future,however, a library should weigh the advantages and disadvantages. Manyof the advantages of RFID revolve around the actual use in librariesand using…
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In some cases where a depo has hundreds, or even thousands of vehicles it sometimes becomes very hard to keep track of the location of vehicles. RFID solutions have a system where each car can be fitted with a RFID tag. When the vehicle is parked, or stored the RFID equipment picks up the location…
Music festivals are synonymous with summer. Just as often, they’re synonymous with lineups. And high-tech RFID bracelets bring cashless ease to music festivals. While multiday festivals were once few and far between – a Mariposa Folk Festival here, a Woodstock there – cities across Canada and the world are now rife with them. So it comes…