Video of the services that Future Store in Germany offers.
Ed Hill from Intel’s Embedded Communication Group shows a internet-connected kiosk and cash register for retail stores. These could help shoppers find exactly what they didn’t know they were looking for, order items, and have them shipped from the store, and even pay using their smart phone.
RFID technology will be used in billions of things in our world – and these tiny chips will also be fused to brain tissue.
NTT Communications has begun trials of a high-tech alternative to loyalty cards that promises to simplify their use. Loyalty cards are big business and are often handed out to customers when they have made a purchase. Consequently, people end up with wallets stuffed with too many cards. When cell phone carriers began rolling out electronic [...]
DAILY RFID recently announced availability of the jewelry industry OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) RFID tag, designed to automate Jewelry tracking in retail, wholesale, or secured storage applications.This RFID OEM tag enable entire trays of tagged jewelry to be simultaneously scanned into an RFID-enabled system within no time, eliminating the need for individual scanning and increasing [...]
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has approved a standard for RuBee, a technology that is a bit like RFID but can be used in harsher environments such as underwater or in firearms. Steel, liquids, animals and people, among other things, can disrupt RFID (radio frequency identification), according to Visible Assets, the small company [...]
Video showing the process of RFID and other smartstore technology in Europe’s Future Stores.
Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club division announced a dramatic drop in its compliance penalties for failure to put RFID tags on pallets sent to its distribution centers. Initially, Sam’s said that failure to meet these deadlines would result in modest “chargeback” penalties – $2.00 per pallet initially, and $3.00 per pallet in 2009. Even at these levels, [...]
At its store in Hollola, Finland, women’s clothing designer Naisten Pukutehdas(NP) has extended its RFID system to the sales floor. The company—which sells women’s fashion, marketed under the NP Collection brand, at 500 retail locations in Scandinavia and Russia, as well as in 10 of its own stores—has created what it hopes to be a [...]