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Clothing Designer Hopes to become a SmartStore
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 [...]
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ISO revises RFID frequency standard
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced Thursday that it has revised its standard for radio frequency identification (RFID) due in part to the growing adopting of the technology. According to a statement issued by the organization, the new standard, “defines the generic architecture concepts” where item identification is commonly required and also provides “specific [...]
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Automatic Identification Experts See Bright 2009
WARRENDALE, PA, Dec 04, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — AIM Global, the trade association recognized as the worldwide authority on automatic identification and mobility, released an “AIM Industry Brief” recapping the measurable and significant operational efficiency improvements resulting from Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology deployments in the global retail sector in 2008 and continuing [...]
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RFID-enabled store display making an impression
The signagelive-enabled Estee Lauder Lab Series for Men RFID solution installed by Lime-IT in the House of Fraser store on Oxford Street, London, has achieved 800 customer interactions in the first two days of trading. Using radio frequency identification (RFID), videos are played on digital signs above the fixture when customers pick up different products. Successful [...]
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The Internet of Things Should Be More Than RFID
CASAGRAS (Coordination and Support Action for Global RFID-related Activities and Standardization), an 18-month E.U.-funded project being carried out by an international group of companies and organizations working on RFID and other standards, has received initial positive feedback from the European Union regarding its interim report, according to Ian Smith, one of the project’s coordinators. The [...]
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Ubiquitous Computing & RFID
Ubiquitous Computing and RFID: Big Brother’s All-Seeing Eye? You be the judge.
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Shopping with Google Android
ShopSavvy, Barcode Scanner, and CompareEverywhere are three free shopping applications for Google Android poised to help you find the best deals in town and online. At their core, they’re nearly identical, using the phone’s camera to auto-focus on a barcode. That barcode is then matched to a product using an open source decoding library, ZXing, [...]
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Smartphones & smartstores
The mobile phone will inevitably be an important component for smartstores. Stores that in build intelligence in their infrastructure using RFID with hardware such as smartshelves and smartcarts will need to embrace smartphones to take full advantage for servicing their customers. If customers are carrying around a communications device that can display information, images, and [...]
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Retail vision, logistics, & supplies in 2030
Perspectives for Food in 2030 by Dr. Gerd Wolfram – Managing Director MGI METRO Group Information Technology A vision for the future of retailing by Metro Group. http://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2007/food2030/docs/food-2030-gerd-wolfram_en.pdf [pdf]
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