Research on RFID, Auto-ID, Location-based Services, and Sensor Based Solutions

Research on RFID, Auto-ID, Location-based Services, and Sensor Based Solutions

RFID is one of those technologies that has as many potential uses as can be imagined. It has been used across virtually all industries and myriad applications. We’ve seen dramatic reductions in cost and implementation challenges and a recent surge in item-level tagging. For over a decade, ChainLink has conducted scores of research projects and advisory projects on RFID, NFC, location technologies, sensors, and related solutions. Below are some of the highlights.

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Current RFID articles and news:

• • • State of the Passive UHF RFID Market
    • RFID Journal LIVE! 2016 Delivers Diversity of Applications
    • RFID and IoT at NRF 2016
    • RFID Needs–and Can Get–Consumers on Board
    • Ecosystem Maturity on Display at RFID Live

• • • RFID Journal Live: Hardware Evolves, but Software Leaps Forward

• • • RFID Software Solutions are Evolving Rapidly

• • • Level the RFID Adoption Playing Field and it will Benefit all Retailers
      
    • NRF Validates RFID’s Coming of Age

• • • Looking Forward to 2015–RFID Continues Steady Growth

• • • Distributed Intelligence in the IoT

• • • What Is This Thing Called the ‘Internet of Things?’

• • • RFID Has Quietly Crossed the Chasm

• • • RFID: Are We Really Out of the Engineering Stage?

• • • Many Lights Turning Greenfor Investors in RFID

• • • Zara/Inditex Going Big With RFID

• • • Comparing the Economics of Fixed vs. Handheld RFID Reader Options

• • • PTC Continues to Strive for World Domination of the IoT with Axeda Acquisition

• • • Retailer Collaboration: Myth or Reality?

• • • Innovations from 2014 RFID Live

• • • Precision and Proportional Forecasting plus Item-Level RFID Will Lead to Sales Uplift

• • • RFID Live

• • • The Future of RFID

• • • RFID–Why Jeans?

• • • The Evolution of Retail Store RFID Reader Strategies

• • • The Price is Right

• • • What Will It Take?

• • • The Internet of Things at the Knee of the Curve

Understanding the RFID Renaissance: (Parts 1-2)

• • • • Understanding the RFID Renaissance
    • • Understanding the RFID Renaissance (Part 2): The Path to ROI

• • • What is Driving RFID Adoption in Retail?

Item-level Retail RFID: (Parts 1-2)

• Item-level Retail RFID: Part 1–The Retail Revolution and Why Now for RFID
• Item-level Retail RFID: Part 2–The Power of End-to-End

• • • RFID and EDI–Untapped Opportunity

• • • What Retail RFID Mandates Mean for Suppliers

• • • Forecast for 2013 Mobile Update

• • • The Face of Things to Come–Beyond the UI

• • • Report: Technology Adoption–Rethinking the Model

• • • Report: RFID in Pharmaceuticals–An Idea Whose Time Has Come

• • • Disruptive Technologies Fueled by a Disruptive and Risky World

• • • Intelligent Things and Intelligent Environments

• • • RFID is Alive . . . So where’s it going Next?

• • • RFID 10 Years In

• • • Big Changes at Omni-ID

• • • The Value of Dynamic Visual Tags

Mobility and Location-based Services:

• • • Differentiating Demand Solutions

• • • Rethinking the Customer at the Point of Experience

• • • The Blank Canvas of RFID–Part 1: RFID in Product Designs

• • • Purpose-driven Mobile Devices Solve Specific Challenges for Retailers

• • • Motorola Solutions Shows Off Their Retail Mojo in SoHo

• • • Mobile Coupons–The Missing Piece

• • • Report: Trends 2012–Mobile Mania

• • • Mobile Mania–Shopping and the Shoppers (NFC vs GPS vs RFID)

• • • Who Will Provide the ‘Location’ In Location-Based Services?

• • • QR Codes vs. RFID–Scanbuy vs. Novitaz

• • • Location-Based Services Poised for Rapid Growth

Industry-Specific Updates:

• • • Retailers Continue Moves Into RFID
    • Impinj Launches xArray, New RFID Overhead Monitoring System
    • It’s 42 Shopping Days till Christmas
    • Highlights from AIM and RAIN
    • AeroScout Reborn
    • Highlights From MIT’s Auto-ID & Sensing Expo
    • Impinj Monza R6–Another Significant Step in RFID’s Progress
    • Winning the Freshness Wars: Creating Shopper Loyalty and Profitability in Retail Grocery
    • Healthcare Big Data–Part 1: Connected Healthcare’s Mountains of Data
    • Technology Integration Can Transform the Hospital and Patient Care Experience
    • Report: Merged Channel Nirvana
    • Carton-level Temperature Tracking for Cold Chain Pharmaceuticals–Why Now?

• • • Tyco Cuts the Ribbon on New Retail Solutions Centers

• • • Mobile Healthcare Innovations

• • • Food for Thought–Challenges in the Produce Supply Chain

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