NFC

NFC Technology for Advertisements

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…

RFID WIP

RFID Work In Process (WIP)

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,…

RFID Technology

RFID Technology for the Logistics Function

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…

RFID Windshield Tag

RFID Windshield Tag Drives Cashless Parking System

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…

RFID Asset Management

Why Use An RFID Asset Management System?

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…