About GS1 Digital Link GS1 Digital Link is a cutting-edge technology standard that enables unique product identification and communication between products and the digital world. It is a modern and flexible solution for connecting products to online information, such...
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syo joins the RAIN RFID Alliance
London, 21/07/2020 The RAIN Alliance is a global alliance promoting the universal adoption of RFID technology using the UHF frequency band and the GS1 Gen2 protocol which ISO/IEC has standardised as 18000-63. RAIN RFID is the technology used to identify, locate and...
Arizon selects syo
London, 20/07/2020 Arizon RFID Technology, 100% owned by Taiwan’s YFY Group, is one of the leading RFID inlay suppliers. Arizon provides first-class manufacturing services for inlays, tags, tickets and cards serving the global RFID industry. In 2012 Arizon produced...
Industry 4.0 – Digital transformation of Kanban
Kanban is a key element of just-in-time production systems in manufacturing. Kanban is used to optimise the supply chain and avoid inventory build-up. Historically the model is based on supermarket operations, where the quantities for items on shelves is based on...
Foxconn
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., trading as Foxconn is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer. Foxconn is the world’s largest provider of electronics manufacturing services and the third-largest information technology company by revenue. The...
What is Digital Transformation?
There are many definitions and great articles available, providing decision-makers with different perspectives. These different perspectives are great as you will have to decide the digital future for your company will look like, which areas to prioritise and which...
Intersnack
For their newest chip flavours, funny-frisch partnered with chefs from local German restaurants to produce three new flavours: Salsa & Lime, Beef Burger, and Flammkuchen. To make an impact with the novel flavours, parent company Intersnack, working with syo,...
Visual search and its role in the shoppers’ journey
Visual cues play an essential role in creating desire and influencing the decision-making process of consumers. In our everyday life, we are exposed to visual elements and people that may inspire us and trigger the start of our shoppers’ journey from discovery, to...
The Integrity of Data and Identifiers in IoT Deployments
RAIN RFID is a key technology for organisations to automatically capture highly accurate and reliable information about individual items or assets within their operations and supply chain. Information about the product’s identity is stored in the IC and communicated...
Digital consumer experience amplifies your brand value
Consumers pay a premium for perceived advantages Most brands have grown over decades or even centuries and built a reputation or more specifically a brand promise to their consumers, which reaches far beyond the actual product function. For example, some cars and...
Strategic Considerations for Sourcing RFID Tags
The most significant ongoing expense in every RFID deployment is the cost of the tags applied to the products. During ROI calculations, teams mostly rely on their solution integrators and tag vendors to provide a rough estimate for the costing. In vertically...
Components of an RFID System
The RFID reader manages the communication with the tag. The reader provides power to the tag through the connected antenna. Tags in the field of view power up and communicate over the air interface. All components of an RFID system need to adhere to the same standards...
What is RFID
Radio Frequency Identification, or short RFID, is a term describing identification technologies using radio waves. Unlike visual identification technologies, radio waves can travel through many materials, enabling identification without the need for a line of sight....
Considerations for your RFID Business Case in Retail
Calculating the business case for RFID deployments is an excellent opportunity to dive into the challenges your business faces across its functions and operations. Often throughout the process of collecting data for the business case, managers for the first time...
Intelligent packaging engages your consumers
Packaging has evolved from its core to enable handling and transportation goods with additional functions and properties. Functional packaging helps to protect items against shock or external factors; packaging helps to keep products safe for consumption in the food...
Digital Transformation and the Experience Economy
The Experience Economy Leading companies, independent of their market and customers are working harder to stage memorable experiences. The customer gets elevated to become the guest; the vendor turns into the host staging the experience. Staging the best experiences...
Reduce the Cost of RFID – move Data from the Tag to the Cloud
Companies move their data to the cloud. Most businesses today have at least some of their information hosted at Micrsoft’s Azure, Google Cloud or Amazon’s AWS. For large deployments, storage cost can be a significant saving. The ability to easily implement...
Digital Twin: Re-inventing retail
The concept of the Digital Twin has already been adopted in many industries. In industrial environments, it has been established as a way to monitor complex systems and devices. Companies and manufacturers collect a broad set of data to optimise performance and use...
New Radio Spectrum in the EU
The European Commission announced on 11 October 2018 the harmonisation of the radio spectrum in support of the Internet of Things and the Implementation of Decision (EU) 2018/1538. The information did lead to some uncertainty and customers have been asking how this...
AI and vision-based systems for FMCG store operations
RFID has been omnipresent at National Retail Federations (NRF) Big Show in New York this year (2019). Over the years we have seen a dramatic change from individual exhibitors and selected demos to a broad embrace of the technology as a core enabler for digital...
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