Modern conveniences such as self-checkout and contactless payments are often taken for granted. Because of this, it’s natural to overlook the critical technology that makes such everyday efficiencies ...

Regular wallets hold your cash and cards in one place so nothing slips out. However, for a while now, there has been some buzz about RFID-blocking wallets everywhere. They look like any other wallet, ...

RFID tags can store information such as the product name, price, expiration date, and origin. RFID readers can read this information from a distance, without requiring direct contact or line of sight.

How can an object’s movement (for example, if an item is relocated from one shelf to another) be updated by a reader? Do RFID applications use a grid of the space covered? Or is some other technique ...

Just a few decades ago, buying things meant going to the bank — your own physical branch, mind you, during the brief hours it was open — to take out cash. If you didn’t have time for that, or ran out ...

Out-of-Stock products are the mute murderer of retailing in the hyper-competitive environment of the modern business. The reactive manual checks are becoming less popular and are being replaced by ...

Retail and pharmacy – two very different industries that, on the surface, might not appear to have much in common. However, the two fields have found a use for an emerging technology to solve very ...