Tag: rtls
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RFID Journal Live 2023
From the standpoint of both applications and economics, Bluetooth Low Energy and RAIN RFID technologies are rapidly converging. In short, that’s our key takeaway from the RFID Journal Live 2023 exhibition floor in Orlando last week. Bluetooth Low Energy and RAIN RFID are both AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data Capture) technologies, and, perhaps fittingly, the…
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Open for business today and a better tomorrow
As we begin 2021 in the second (or even third!) wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses around the world have by now, with few exceptions, been forced to shift, scale or even suspend their operations. During the first wave, many companies and organisations sought out contact tracing and social distancing solutions to minimise or delay…
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Embrace the ambient data in your space
In February of 2020, we updated the one-liner of landing page to Embrace the ambient data in your space. We did this for two reasons: observing and processing all the ambient wireless packets in a space is a key differentiator of our technology platform enhancing the human experience by augmenting physical presence with digital data…
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Location and traceability in times of pandemic
Yesterday (March 11th, 2020), the World Health Organisation’s Director General characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic. Today, in Montréal where reelyActive is based, and around the world, many find themselves directly and personally affected by measures intended to prevent the spread of the virus, including business, institution and school closures, as well as travel restrictions and…
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The future of mobile indoor location
Since the advent of the iBeacon five years ago, much effort has been spent on real-time location-based experiences through mobile. If today you were to ask “Should I develop a native mobile app?” to anyone who has invested in such efforts, you may well receive an emphatic NO. In this blog post, we’ll not…
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Real-time location finds some promising predictions for 2018
The Local Search Association‘s tradition of publishing expert predictions for the New Year is something we look forward to at the start of the year, and we’re excited about what the experts have to say about real-time location in 2018. Beginning with user data, Foursquare‘s Steven Rosenblatt predicts: marketers will turn their focus towards data…
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BYOD RTLS
While the terms bring your own device (BYOD), coined when employees started bringing their own phones and laptops to the office, and real-time location systems (RTLS), coined when RFID tags started to be tracked, may be unfamiliar to many, together, these concepts promise to have an impact that will soon become familiar to us all…
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A remarkaBLE week in Bluetooth
The headlines: 01 12 16 — HID Global Acquires Bluvision to Expand With Bluetooth Solutions for the Enterprise Internet of Things Market (press release) 05 12 16 — Gimbal is Joining The Mobile Majority (press release) 07 12 16 — Bluetooth 5 Now Available (press release) It’s not every week that you see two companies…
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