I posted a comment recently on a new white paper from Honeywell Scanning & Mobility entitled Are Smartphones and Tablets Suitable for Use in Warehouse and Distribution Center Operations? and encourage you to read the paper in full for yourself. The survey it discusses provides interesting insight into current thinking on the subject of industrial…
In my previous blog article, I talked about the growing emphasis on intelligent building. To summarize, Intelligent Building can automate the following areas: Integrated and Intelligent Systems Energy Management System & Services Service Support & Maintenance Advantech’s intelligent building solution (AiBS) software, WebAccess, can accomplish the tasks listed above. WebAccess is a graphical control SCADA/HMI…
As economies adjust to ever-rising demand for and costs of energy, an increasing range of enterprises are focusing on intelligent-building strategies. Globally, commercial buildings currently consume just fewer than 25 percent of all electricity production, making intelligent, automated management of those resources critical not only to enterprise efficiency, but also to global energy-allocation challenges. While…
Not to give my age away, but the first PCs I recall installing in a commercial workplace were four IBM XTs with Intel’s 4.77 MHz 8088 processor, 256 kB of RAM, 5.25-inch floppies and 20-MB hard drives. Total price tag, including custom software: ~$24,000.00 in mid-80s dollars, or about $50,000.00 in 2011 dollars. Their proud…
The wisdom of The Internet of Things strategy has, perhaps, been best demonstrated in my personal life by the fact that I now accept being tracked via my smartphone. For me, the benefits greatly outweigh any nebulous privacy concerns. The smartphone that is now my constant companion serves also as my personal radio-frequency identification chip,…
Since the concept, The Internet of Things, was conceived by Kevin Ashton in the late 1990s, much has changed with regard to the technologies available for realization of his vision. Ashton worried that the majority of data available via the Internet was filtered through the people who created and input that data, causing a bias…
I remember when I first started seeing random QR codes in advertisements. I didn’t know what they were or why they were popping up all over the place. But, as an L-Tron employee, I soon found out the scoop – after all, barcodes are one of L-Tron’s specialties. Anyways, I soon began to see QR…
Advantech recently announced one of the most intriguing approaches we’ve seen to system development, a new program that allows Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and OEMs to design highly customized, application-specific systems using readily-available off-the-shelf components. This rapid system-customization approach has been dubbed “C²OTS” by Advantech for “customized commercial-off-the-shelf.” As described by Advantech, “C²OTS gives OEMs…
Not too long ago, I blogged about a couple of news articles that I read regarding the use of QR Codes on gravestones. Strange, huh? Well, now I’ve stumbled across another unusual use of tracking technology in an article entitled, “School Uses ID Chips to Track Student Locations.” The article I read addresses the use…
I wrote recently about Zebra’s introduction of a newly enhanced version of its HC100 Wristband Printer line, but mentioned only in passing the unique cartridge-loaded Z-Band wristbands that the printers deliver. Z-Band wristbands are available in a number solution-specific of configurations, including antimicrobial-coated bands designed specifically for patient identification. Because those of us who are…
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