Last week we wrote about digital socks. Now digital bottle caps are in the spotlight. Strongbow Gold Cider, which is owned by Heineken, has unveiled a digitally connected, RFID-enabled bottle cap called StartCap. When opened, the cap automatically triggers an event, such as automatically checking you into Foursquare to activating a spotlight or firing a [...]
Retail apparel tagging is trailblazing a path for overall RFID adoption. For every retailer like Macy’s that has gone public with its plan for deploying RFID, there are likely two more in stealth mode, preparing for a full rollout. At a recent RFID event, tag vendors revealed that there are “hundreds of millions” of tags [...]
KH Lloreda is a family business based in Barcelona, Spain, that manufactures and markets household and commercial cleaning products for several European countries. KH Lloreda holds 60 percent of the degreasers cleaning product market share in Spain, amounting to 25 million bottles sold annually.
At the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas earlier this year, NXP demonstrated some of the advantages of a smart washing machine equipped with RFID. NXP loaded an RFID interface onto the appliance’s system management board for the purpose of clothes detection and maintenance benefits. As explained in the video, when clothing items are tagged with RFID in the [...]
At the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas earlier this year, NXP demonstrated some of the advantages of a smart washing machine equipped with RFID. NXP loaded an RFID interface onto the appliance’s system management board for the purpose of clothes detection and maintenance benefits. As explained in the video, when clothing items are tagged with RFID in the [...]
For years we’ve been hearing about the potential for RFID technology within consumer electronics products. That promise is quickly becoming a reality. At the RFID Live show in April, Intel announced that it is including Impinj Monza X tag chips in their tablet computer reference design for products based on Microsoft Windows 8 coming to [...]
It’s the time of year when research analysts update their growth projections for RFID technology. ABI Research came out with its market forecast earlier this week, calling for a total market value in excess of $70 billion by 2015. RFID chip manufacturer NXP has also released some interesting research on what it considers to be [...]
Innovation was on full display during last week’s RFID Live conference in Orlando. In many cases, the new applications showcased by vendors like Impinj and NXP interact heavily with consumers, bringing shoppers even closer to the technology. Vendors were impressed with some of the new use cases brought to them by attendees during the show, [...]
Innovation was on full display during day one of the RFID Live conference being held this week in Orlando. In many cases, the new applications being showcased by vendors like Impinj and NXP interact heavily the consumer, bringing shoppers even closer to the technology. NXP, for example, demonstrated an RFID-enabled tablet device that can be [...]
While industry verticals like pharmaceuticals, alcohol and tobacco show signs of ramping up usage of item level tagging, the apparel industry continues to be the main driver when it comes to item level tagging. In a recent web cast hosted by VDC Research, RFID analyst Mike Liard estimated that apparel accounts for 75-80 percent of [...]
