Strategic Systems Articles

  • Intelligent Enterprise: Notes From This Year’s Harvard Innovation Symposium

    Oct 14, 2016 · 1 minute read

    I recently attended the 2016 Innovation Symposium hosted by the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University. The topic this year was The Intelligent Enterprise. Most of the case ...

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  • RFID Glossary

    Aug 8, 2016 · 3 minute read

    RFID Terminology Explained: It can be easy to get disoriented in the technical jargon and acronyms that surround RFID technology. With that in mind, we have created this quick-reference resource to ...

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  • RFID Personnel Tracking: Why The Conspiracy Theories Are Wrong

    Jul 8, 2016 · 3 minute read

    What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, “people tracking?” Does the term instantly conjure up an image of Big Brother-style surveillance? Do you picture a Bourne Identity scenario in which the ...

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  • RFID Middleware: Boldly Going Where You Need to Know

    Jun 28, 2016 · 2 minute read

    To understand RFID middleware, take a journey into space (… the final frontier …) and picture the scene: With explosions rocking his ship and panicked crew members shouting urgently from their posts ...

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  • RFID Needs Professional Services, Not Sciencing

    Jun 10, 2016 · 4 minute read

    By now you’ve probably heard of the “maker movement,” a thriving, smart DIY culture and attitude that’s being fueled by two things: the rise of easily accessible technology and the collaborative ...

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  • 3 New Developments That Will Disrupt RFID as You Know It

    May 19, 2016 · 2 minute read

    Each spring, the who’s who from the world of RFID get together for three days of show-and-tell at the annual RFID Journal LIVE! Conference. And the trends we spotted at this year’s event, which took ...

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  • 16 Creative Ways to Use RFID Technology

    May 14, 2016 · 4 minute read

    As the popularity of RFID technology has grown over the past few years, so has its reputation as a highly versatile method of adding business value. RFID readers can be integrated with other tracking ...

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  • The 4 Most Important Components of Your RFID Solution

    Mar 4, 2016 · 3 minute read

    Most people have some concept of how an RFID solution works: you put RFID tags on the items you want to track, and then you can use an RFID reader to scan the tags and collect information about the ...

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  • RFID Solutions Vocabulary You Need to Know

    Feb 19, 2016 · 2 minute read

    To people not familiar with radio frequency identification (RFID), the vocabulary of RFID solutions can sound like a completely different world with a language of its own. Whether you’re just ...

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  • What Is Near Field Communication?

    Oct 22, 2015 · 2 minute read

    What is near field communication? Near Field Communication (NFC) is a term that refers to a set of standards for a specific method of wirelessly transmitting data either via direct (touching) contact ...

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  • What Is RTLS?

    Aug 25, 2015 · 1 minute read

    What is RTLS? The acronym RTLS stands for real-time locating solution. In some cases, you might need to track the precise locations of objects. Other times, it’s enough to know that an item is in a ...

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  • RFID FAQ

    Jun 7, 2015 · 3 minute read

    What is an RFID System and how does it work? Basically, RFID systems have at least two components: readers and tags. A reader (or “interrogator”) is a device that has one or more antennas that send ...

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