Scoring Off the Field: RFID and Printing at Stadiums

With the World Cup underway, I have a feeling most of the world is tuned in to Brazil to experience the excitement that only comes around every 4 years. I wouldn’t normally consider myself a fan of soccer, but I found myself watching the second half of the USA vs Portugal game and getting a little…

Intelligent Buildings with WebAccess

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…

The Scanner Graveyard

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, we’ve been running a trade-in promotion since April for Law Enforcement Officers to trade in their old driver’s license readers for $49.10 off of the 4910LR. This trade-in event has been so popular that we’ve extended our promotion through the end of June – and the old scanners…

How Printing Challenges Shaped the Modern Barcode

While students at Drexel University, Woodland and Bernard Silver overheard a grocery-industry executive ask one of the university’s school of engineering deans about options for gathering inventory data during the checkout process. Woodland, who had worked on the Manhattan Project and who had previously earned a degree in mechanical engineering, was so captured by the…

iDoor Technology – What it Means for You

Last week, I was thinking a lot about Advantech’s recently introduced iDoor Technology…so much, in fact, that it was on my mind as I went to the grocery store.  While at the store, I went through the salad bar and it dawned on me. The concept of iDoor Technology is similar to that of a…

Check Please! Mobile POS in Restaurants

Last week I went to a fancy Italian restaurant with my family after work. Frequently surrounded by barcode scanners and mobile computers, I thought I was done seeing data collection devices when I left the office – but boy was I wrong. Walking into the restaurant (a bit earlier than the rest of my party,…

Reviewing and Revitalizing Mobile Service Processes

Honeywell, one of our premier partners, just recently surveyed 260 organizations worldwide, looking to gather information on how they manage and assess their field service processes. Being the data-nut that I am, I’m always looking for the numbers to validate the facts – and these numbers look pretty noteworthy to me. But don’t bother reading…