RFID and WMS Integration: A Technical Deep Dive
Portal readers at a dock door can verify an entire inbound shipment against the ASN in seconds, cutting receiving labour by as much as 90 per cent. A technical walk…
Mobile RFID Apps: Building Solutions for Handheld Readers
Handheld readers fill the gaps fixed portals cannot reach, but the software decides whether staff actually use them. From Zebra's EMDK to Bluetooth sled SDKs, trigger handling and continuous versus…
Automation cuts stocktaking from 14 days to 30 minutes for Grupo Asia Shipping
A warehouse stocktake that once took up to 14 days at Grupo Asia Shipping in Brazil now finishes in about 30 minutes. Cargo checking has dropped from two hours to…
LZPD NRW and Duisburg Police Test First Patrol Car with Intelligent Equipment Tracking Using RFID
Around 50 items make up the kit in the boot of every North Rhine-Westphalia patrol car, and crews have checked it with a clipboard at every shift changeover. Duisburg officers…
Avery Dennison study: 97% of fans want personalised merchandise, but 63% walk away from queues and stockouts
Ninety-seven percent of fans want personalised merchandise at live events and 52% would pay more than $15 for it, yet 63% walk away because of queues and stockouts. Avery Dennison's…
RFID for SMEs: Is It Finally Affordable for Smaller Businesses?
Passive UHF inlays that cost 20 to 30 cents a few years ago now sell for 5 to 8 cents, and entry-level fixed readers have dropped under $500. Add cloud…
Bellaire library tags nearly 100,000 books in four months
Bellaire City Library in Texas tagged close to 100,000 books in four months, against an original estimate of nine months to a year. The shortcut was circulation itself: staff tagged…
300,000 documents across 120 libraries tagged with RFID by Conseil départemental de l’Aisne in France
The Aisne department in northern France is fitting RFID chips to 300,000 books, CDs and DVDs and redistributing them across the 120 libraries it supplies. Staff now process 30 items…
Keonn and Impinj Cut Store Inventory Times Sevenfold with Gen2X Overhead RFID
Keonn's upgraded AdvanTrack-600 overhead readers, built on Impinj's E710 chip with Gen2X, cut back-of-store inventory time from nearly an hour to under eight minutes in a 9,000-item store test. We…
The Total Cost of NOT Implementing RFID
Barcode-only operations run at 65 to 75 per cent inventory accuracy, while RFID sites routinely sit above 95 per cent. That gap is stock you cannot sell, labour you keep…
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