RFID & Wireless IoT tomorrow 2018

Your drive to digital innovation The automotive industry is booming: In the first quarter of 2018, 878,600 new cars were registered in Germany according to the German Association of Automotive Industry, VDA. This has been the quarter with the highest amount of newly registered cars since 2000. All around the globe, comparable developments can be observed. However, the change in the automotive industry cannot be overseen and will urge companies to rethink their business models. Trends like e-mobility and autonomous driving require technological innovations in the supply chain. What do solutions for these challenges look like?

Lost baggage: a serious challenge Waiting for baggage at the baggage carousel, possibly in vain, causes millions of passengers around the world discomfort and stress every day. SITA’S Baggage Report informs about the number of mishandled bags: Between 2007 and the end of 2016. However, each lost or misrouted piece of luggage generates costs of around 100 dollars per suitcase or bag. In 2016 alone, these costs for airlines amounted to 2.1 billion dollars. With RFID no more bag is lost!

UHF-RFID elevates the navigation for the blind and visually impaired to a new level. GPS-based navigation is useful in everyday life, but not precise enough for visually impaired people. On shopping streets, one shop follows the next in close distances. Therefore, it needs high-resolution systems to facilitate the localization of the entrance that the person is looking for.

Optimal digitization of processes More than 20 million patient cases were treated in German hospitals in 2007, at the same time, the expenditure for healthcare exceeded the threshold of 1 billion euros per day in this year. How can patients be taken care of more safely, better and more efficient and simultaneously, how can the increase in expenditure be restricted? Furthermore, the amount in patients and expenditure increase globally. Digitalisation in healthcare by RFID and Wireless IoT solutions is one of the most important topics in the sector. IoT applications offer wide-range potential in order to optimize processes, to cut costs and to improve patient care.