Sport Zone, the largest sports retailer in Portugal, will begin to deploy RFID to all of its 120 stores in September. After a successful pilot at two stores, Sport Zone expects to enhance supply chain management and improve the overall retail customer experience. Sports Zone, Avery Dennison and Tyco Retail Solutions launched a pilot program…
Dubbed ‘the greatest show on snow’, Snowbombing takes place in the Austrian town of Mayrhofen and welcomes over 6,000 festival-goers for a week of world-class music and snow sports. Following on from last year’s success of taking Snowbombing fully Cashless for the first time, Intellitix once again deployed a bespoke system across the entire festival…
“Being a part of the FOVAHM organization alone is a true honor, and we are now also seeing beneficial business results of using RFID technology,” said Bertrand Gross, Director of the mARTigny boutique-hotel. “Accurately managing linen lifecycles and inventory save us valuable resources, and our management is able to focus on providing superb hospitality to…
Johnson Controls Inc. had a logistics mystery on its hands: thousands of reusable shipping boxes and storage racks were disappearing every year. The auto-parts maker, which was spending a small fortune to replace the equipment, launched an investigation. It showed some were squirreled away at factories by Johnson Controls’ own plant managers, others were kept…
With an expected rise of the total number of registered vehicles in Malaysia to 28 million by 2018, a 5.3 percent increase from 2012, the government, along with the Road Transport Department (JPJ), plans to implement the use of RFID-enabled road-tracking stickers on vehicles. The intention for using radio-frequency identification is to better enable government…
At the Scheck Hillel Community Day School in Miami, Fla., three high school freshmen were recently assigned a capstone project in their STEM class that challenged them to use technology to solve a real-life problem. Esther Benasayag, Albert Wolak and Abraham Woldenberg looked to the headlines for inspiration, and they immediately recognized the issue of…
Delta Air Lines is sinking $50 million into RFID baggage tracking technology to become the first U.S. carrier to provide customers with real-time tracking for their luggage. RFID will replace barcode scanning for the 120 million bags Delta handles annually. With RFID, scanners use radio waves to capture data stored on an RFID chip embedded…