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Earlier this year, the retailer began distributing 125,000 multi-function mobile devices to store employees chainwide.

The company has partnered with Wiliot to offer a BLE-based conditions-monitoring tag the size of a credit card, while other recent products include a fill-level sensor tag for NFC-based data.

Avery Dennison Smartrac unveils inlays for inventory, supply chain; Renesas MCUs achieve NIST CAVP certification, provide IoT security; Vubiq Networks awarded fifth RFID patent; BOS’s RFID Division receives Israeli defense order.

The event, held on May 17-19 in Las Vegas, Nev., opened with four tracks and two keynotes, and closed with the annual RFID Journal Awards ceremony.

A customizable system developed by Favendo, Abeeway and Actility is built to increase productivity, reduce search times and improve employee safety, both indoors and outdoors.

The winners for 2022 were revealed at the RFID Journal LIVE! conference and exhibition, held last week in Las Vegas, Nev.

Cookies and Dr. Greenthumb’s are offering highly immersive store experiences and a concentrated focused on growth.

The winners for 2022 were revealed at the RFID Journal LIVE! conference and exhibition, held last week in Las Vegas, Nev.

Under a new strategic partnership, Avery Dennison Smartrac will leverage its R&D capabilities to design and produce second-generation Wiliot tags.

In addition to expanding its geographic reach, the company plans to grow in terms of new business portfolios, and to work on the concept of sustainability.

Avery Dennison Smartrac’s AD Dot inlay measures just four by four millimeters and is designed for tracking very small goods such as wearable electronics, cosmetics and drugs.

The company’s latest products are designed for on-metal use in the retail sector and in food supply chain, as well as for other applications.

Omni-ID’s five new products are battery-free labels with sensors and UHF functionality to transmit data, such as temperature or moisture presence, to an RFID reader for use in the cold supply chain, at data centers or during construction.

A study conducted by Descartes Systems Group and Sapio Research found that the shipment visibility RFID, BLE and 5G technologies can provide for online purchases could increase customer satisfaction and improve sustainability.

The company is preparing for rapid platform-level growth by engaging with solution providers and technology vendors that leverage its postage stamp-sized sticker tags to track products, assets and systems in real time.

ACURA’s updated EDGE-30R+ AutoID UHF RFID reader is designed for access security and can be used in outdoor areas.

Sewio offers RTLS subscription service, software; Wiliot, Identiv unveil battery-assisted IoT tags; Soracom expands IoT partner program; Talkin’ Things receives funding for RFID tag manufacturing; Senet, Ready Wireless partner on LoRaWAN solutions; Essence Group, Securitas Direct provide IoT-based intruder prevention; RedLore adds UWB tech to Wirepas IoT network.

Several racecar drivers and teams are employing and sponsoring a solution from Surgere to track the performance of tires or other components by monitoring how often each part passes RFID readers.

Companies are piloting or deploying the technology to recognize hand motions and convert them into instructions, such as adjusting temperature or volume levels, turning a page on a screen or selecting a beverage from a vending machine.

Cal Cargo Airlines has deployed a solution from Descartes that provides data about the locations and conditions of palletized or containerized cargo moving through a worldwide network of BLE gateways.

The 20th annual conference and exhibition will feature a special pavilion in the exhibit hall with leading members of AIM North America.

SICK is among the first companies to offer a solution leveraging the UWB backchannel feature in Sewio’s Studio 2.6 platform, allowing users to communicate with a tag and prompt it to light up so that it can be easily spotted.

Avery Dennison unveils dual-frequency RFID inlays for retail, healthcare; Kathrein Solutions intros RFID test and demo kit; Zebra offers mobile computing solution for front-line workers; NFC Forum launches wireless charging certification program; Semtech, CITiLIGHT collaborate on smart street lighting, LoRaWAN; Litmus, Google Cloud develop AI manufacturing platform.

At next week’s conference in Las Vegas, Wiliot will help technologists and businesspeople put their hands on BLE sensor technology so they can start building systems to solve problems.

Walletmor has developed a Near Field Communication tag that can be embedded in a user’s hand to enable credit card payments, while the long-term plan is to release a solution similar for a full digital wallet, with an embedded NFC tag for multiple payment sources, access control and medical records.

Energous is selling its kit with Atmosic’s BLE system-on-chip, enabling users to build solutions that leverage wireless charging at up to a 13-meter distance for IoT solutions ranging from factory condition monitoring to in-store electronic shelf labeling.

NXP’s NTAG 22x DNA family of NFC tag ICs leverage conductive and capacitive sensing to detect when a product has been opened, while providing moisture, pressure or fill-level sensing.

The company’s Atma.io solution, which can be used with RFID to track goods through a supply chain, now provides carbon scores from manufacture to consumer, along with real-time alerts and analytics about expiration dates and efficiencies.

More than 80 end users and RFID experts will speak at this year’s event regarding the technology’s benefits for retail, apparel, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, food and agriculture, defense, aviation, energy and other sectors.

Clothing retailer Charanga deploys Nedap RFID platform; TSC Printronix Auto ID intros mobile RFID printer; Arm adds processors to its IoT product portfolio; Vubiq Networks awarded RFID technology patent; Memfault, Dimension Four partner on IoT smart devices.

Alpargatas, which owns the Brazilian slippers company, launched a pilot of Seeonic’s RFID platform at its operations in California, enabling it to increase sales.

Metrc has added four more U.S. states to its portfolio of customers that leverage its RFID-based solution to create a record of each plant and package of cannabis, then track the product throughout the supply chain.

Ontex’s smart diaper solution uses LoRaWAN connectivity with Semtech’s ICs, printed sensor electronics built into each diaper, and software and an app to track the status of patients’ hygiene at care facilities or hospitals.

A solution from Murata ID Solutions is boosting efficiency and reducing errors for global fashion company Liu Jo, by identifying goods entering and leaving its distribution center.

The two-year TRACE project, led by a consortium that includes PragmatIC Semiconductor, will monitor NFC-tagged beverage bottles and food trays as they are sold, returned to a store, cleaned and then reused.

RF Code intros edge monitoring solution for remote locations; Senet, Helium expand LoRaWAN connectivity globally; Kerlink gateways power SkyLab LoRaWAN for wind energy; IoT company UnaBiz appointed new Sigfox owner; IIJ Global, Excelfore boost connected car software security; Auterion, Spleenlab partner on drones, AI for infrastructure inspections.

The Wi-SUN Alliance, representing Internet of Things-based wireless mesh technologies, conducted a study that finds more than nine in 10 respondents believe adoption is necessary to remain competitive, and that deployments are becoming more complex.

The acquisition will place Beontag among the largest RFID label producers globally, with a planned capacity of five billion labels, leveraging Confidex’s ticketing and industrial tag products and its China-based manufacturing site.

The company’s device-to-cloud geolocation platform enables satellite-based networks for supply chain management and logistics.

The new plant will provide radio frequency identification solutions for the growing market in Latin America.

The sporting goods retailer is encouraging its stores around the world to leverage RFID tracking robots from MetraLabs and Pal Robotics, while providing services for other retailers and industrial companies seeking to deploy RFID.

A custom-designed IoT solution is providing government agencies and water-science specialists with access to continuous data about key water-quality parameters.

The passive RFID technology (coupled with IR sensors) provided by EPC Solutions Taiwan manages the precise location of fine art inside narrow cabinets in the museum’s storage area, automating inventory data and preventing theft in real time.

Chipotle Mexican Grill has launched a pilot that monitors the flow of RFID-tagged containers of ingredients destined for its Chicago-area restaurants, in order to improve visibility, operational efficiency and food safety.

Companies are deploying Cognosos’s RTLS technology to track assets by pinpointing their real-time locations, based on software algorithms rather than infrastructure triangulation.

RFID Journal announced today that a new program, sponsored by Wiliot, has joined the conference lineup.

Dhyan, Senet partner on LoRaWAN smart streetlighting for cities, utilities; DATASCAN, Frequentiel collaborate on item-level RFID for retailers; Elsight drone connectivity added to Auterion ecosystem; LORIOT closes Series A funding with WIKA Group.

Apptricity is partnering with Shopify to provide its Internet of Things edge device, an app, and BLE or other tags as part of the Storefront app, enabling users to view the location and status of goods at their own site, in the supply chain or at a customer’s store.

Matt Alexander, the company’s senior director of merchandising innovation, will discuss how and why the retailer is expanding its RFID efforts.

The college is in the second phase of research into Near Field Communication tags that could capture pollution and weather data in the atmosphere when dropped from an aircraft, then transmit that information via a drone.

COVID-19 has prompted many organizations to adopt touchless and biometric access-control solutions, as well as other emerging technologies, such as contact tracing.

The company’s software is designed to reduce downtime and material costs, improve quality, and provide insights into machine and human productivity.

HID offers Secure Element for RFID readers; Enthu, Xorowin Mechatronics integrate Semtech LoRa devices; Semtech teams with Smart Paddock for LoRaWAN cattle-tracking; Essence Group, Team-3 partner on cellular IoT intruder prevention; Fedrigoni becomes Tageos majority shareholder; Digital Twin Consortium announces definition framework.

The Industry IoT Consortium is targeting the business and technology side of company decision making for the successful rollout of artificial-intelligence systems that manage IoT-based data—from comparing the operation of different factories to analyzing data from each sensor-based component.

Companies such as DHL and FedEx are using ReverseLogix’s software-as-a-service to improve returns processing, leveraging QR codes (or potentially RFID tags) to ensure goods are quickly received, inspected and either recycled or returned to the supply chain for resale.

Sewio’s team members are each taking a three-day paid leave to provide support to Ukrainians in need, ranging from transporting refugees to Brno, in the Czech Republic, to finding them jobs, homes and schooling.

CAEN RFID is offering the mode for its Proton and Quattro readers so users can more easily install and configure their RFID devices without requiring middleware or programming skills.

Semtech, Vutility collaborate on LoRaWAN energy-monitoring system; Janam Technologies launches self-credentialing kiosk; Viakoo device certificate manager allows Zero Trust for IoT networks; Powercast ships 10 million wireless RF Powerharvester chips; Soracom, Orange Wholesale France partner on IoT connectivity services; Itron partners with Spanish city on smart-city project.

Stefanini Group’s Mozaiko RFID solution enables the company to monitor the quantities and locations of products in real time throughout the supply chain.

Moleskine is reducing shrinkage by leveraging a discreet UHF RFID loss-prevention system from InfinityID and Keonn at each of 30 European stores.

At RFID Journal’s upcoming conference and exhibition, the company will explain how it uses RFID technology to improve product availability.

The automation solutions company announced new products, including its Aurora platform, shortly after the National Retail Federation’s Big Show.

A hybrid solution from tech startup TrueGreen and RFID company Identiv enables UHF and NFC tracking from a single label to provide authentication, supply chain management and tamper-evident content for consumers who buy products at dispensaries.

Swiss Saltworks has been piloting an Internet of Things-based solution with cellular LTE connectivity to track the conditions at its salt silos in the mountainous communities it serves in Switzerland.

GS1 US is launching a quarterly best practices program with a panel discussion in March, which will bring together industry experts to foster peer-to-peer learning and networking.

Renesas Electronics offers MPU, BLE RF transceiver for IoT devices; Radix IoT, Techstream Systems partner on IoT smart-building solutions; CEA-Leti, Spectronite develop software radio; Foundries.io, Variscite provide embedded IoT platform; Sigfox announces update on receivership/rehabilitation proceeding.

The company has purchased Next4 and will provide a solution that draws from a feature both companies have been offering freight-management customers to track containers and goods around the world.

Kloeckner Metals and Reading Hospital are among the organizations that will present case studies at this year’s LIVE! conference.

The company has released its postage stamp-sized energy-harvesting device to transmit data at a distance of up to 10 meters, along with a software platform and a starter kit designed for easy development and deployment.

A Principal Bebê & Mamãe has focused its deployment on items for infants and mothers, implementing a solution from iTAG to better manage its inventory.

With the double-whammy of demand growth and supply delays, the RFID industry may see challenges extend through the year, while the long-term outlook appears promising for the technology.