Crowdsourcing is usually thought of as a way of raising money for everything from IT projects to mortgages.
However, an international effort is using the...
Equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems Inc. and IT service provider T-Systems International GmbH will collaborate in developing smart-tag systems for the logistics and retail sectors, the companies said.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has awarded a contract to upgrade and support an RFID (radio frequency identification) network launched last year to track multinational defense consignments between Europe and Afghanistan. The contract underscores the growing demand for RFID systems projected by research and consulting company Gartner Inc. in a report.
Waldemar Wiesner looks a bit annoyed. He's just scanned a package of carrots into a small touch-screen computer mounted to his shopping cart but the scanner wouldn't identify the product.