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Building the Business Case for Voice: A Roundtable Discussion Part 2

November 12, 2013

Randy Vier, Wendy Smith, Dennis Merchant and Scott Deutsch

Finding the ROI in RFID

November 11, 2013

With RFID, return on investment derives from automated, accurate, real-time inventory tracking, says McLeod Williamson, RFID business development manager at Zebra Technologies. He provides an update on RFID applications in retail supply chains and describes how other industries are starting to leverage the technology.

Xplore Technologies Corp., Blank-it Develop Customized Tablet

November 5, 2013

Xplore Technologies Corp.

Xplore Technologies Corp. has teamed up with blank-t to create a customized tablet for operators of heavy machinery in warehousing and distribution environments.

RFID's Role in Today's Supply Chain

November 4, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Use of RFID tags at the item level is upstaging case and pallet tagging among many retailers, says Tom O'Boyle, director of RFID at Barcoding Inc. O'Boyle explains the benefits derived from item-level tagging and looks at other innovative applications for RFID, including hybrid systems that mix active and passive tags.

Market for 'Smart' Home Appliances Predicted to Reach $25Bn Over Next Five Years

November 4, 2013

ABI Research

The smart home appliance market, defined by products with built-in connectivity, will witness substantial growth over the next five years, reaching nearly $25bn by 2018, according to ABI Research. Currently limited to the top-end luxury models, wireless connectivity will slowly permeate to lower tier brands and models.

How Did We Manage Before Voice Technology?

October 31, 2013

Stuart Rosenfeld, Edward Krupka Jr., Steven DiZinno and Scott Deutsch

Brazilian Grocer Uses RFID to More Accurately Weigh Fish, Other Products in Its Cold Chain

October 30, 2013

RFID Journal

Grupo PÃ£o-de-AÃ§Ãºcar (GPA) has found an RFID solution to a problem that previously affected both logistics and accounting for its PÃ£o-de-AÃ§Ãºcar and Extra supermarket chains. The distribution of fish, as well as other products in its cold chain, presents significant challenges for the retailer. After all, fish do not have identical weights, and businesses work with average values per unit, resulting in differences between what theoretically was delivered to a store, what was really sold and the expected revenue generated by marketing.

The RFID market will increase from $6.98bn in 2012 to $7.88bn, and will reach $23.4bn in 2020, according to a RFID sector survey by IDTechEx Research.