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Editor's Note
RFID Brand and Product Awareness Remains Low
By Mark Roberti
A survey of RFID Journal's readership found that Zebra Technologies, Impinj and Avery Dennison are the top three brands in the RFID industry, but awareness of what the leading companies sell remains low, particularly among end users.
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Expert View
2018 Was Supposed to Be the IoT's Breakout
Moment, But It's Not...
By Anastasia Efstratios
The Internet of Things may not yet be poised for a breakout moment, but it is providing solutions to help companies solve their IT problems and improve the way they do business.
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RFID Provides On-the-Job Training,
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Aury Africa, a mining equipment and services provider, has deployed an RFID-based solution from Thimbekile at three of its customer sites to date, providing an automated way for its personnel to access and input data about the work they do, as well as creating an automated record.
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RFID Tracks Specialty Drugs Through
Pharmaceutical Network
Asembia has deployed a UHF RFID-based solution to track the movement and status of specialty medications as they flow from the distribution center to pharmacies and to patients, thereby preventing the dispensing of expired products.
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New On-Metal UHF Tag Measures Just 5
Millimeters in Length
Aerospace and health-care solution providers are testing Kyocera's ceramic tags on tools to track their movement during surgical procedures or assembly processes.
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Registration Open for RFID in Aerospace
and Defense 2018
The one-day conference, being held in Arlington, Va., on Dec. 12, will feature fast-track RFID training on Dec. 11, prior to the event's opening.
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Industrial Internet Consortium Presents
Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions Forum
The forum will take place at Hannover Messe USA, co-located with the International Manufacturing Technology Show, on Sept. 14 in Chicago.
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SensThys Releases $49 RFID Antenna
The new product is part of the company's effort to drive down the cost and complexity of RFID installations, which also includes the acquisition of IoT software company DÃgame Systems, enabling software development to aid in that effort.
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RFID in Aerospace and Defense is aimed at helping companies in these sectors to comply with customer requirements and use RFID technology internally to achieve significant benefits. Case studies will be presented by aerospace and defense companies already using RFID.
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Simplifying Field and Consignment Inventory
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RFID4U's TagMatiks-FI (Field Inventory) platform and Zebra Technologies' RFD8500 and RFD2000 readers can be used by companies in manufacturing, health care, fashion, energy and other verticals to perform cycle counts, inventory management, field audits and transfers, as well as build out predictable analytics. This video explains how to increase the visibility of inventory and operations while cutting down on manual processes.
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