The Internet of Things: Where it's Headed, and Practical Strategies for Leveraging RFID Right Now

We are Entering a New Era of "Turbo Visibility" - Learn How Connected Assets and Data-Driven Analysis are and Will Make Companies More Efficient

Be Efficient – Accurate – Connected™

9.23.14

Be Efficient – Accurate – Connected™

16-year history as a leading systems integrator• National presence• Dedicated RFID Practice• 40,000+ companies served• Solutions that reach across the entire supply chain• Partner-centric organization• Thousands of devices under management

Who is Barcoding, Inc.

Zebra: At The Intersection of the Physical and the Digital

Zebra solutions convert the physical to digital to help customers know

the location, motion and state of assets, people and transactions

throughout their value chain. Our solutions enable greater visibility, so

they can make smarter decisions with more meaningful and timely

information.

Asset Tracking Patient Safety Customer Experience

What is the “Internet of Things?”

• Termed first coined in 1999• Connected assets, devices, people• An evolving “ecosystem” • Gartner: 26 billion devices by 2020

Humans will no longer be dominant source of internet data #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

Moving to an Era of “Turbo Visibility”

• RFID, bar code, sensors, motes, video, GPS, wireless, etc.

• See almost everything in real-time across extended supply chain

• Profound effects are not yet well understood

Real-time access to data will extend across the supply chain #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

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Turbo Visibility

Amal Graafstra’s Hands London Surveillance

Cameras

GPS

Companies Put Improved Visibility at Top of Priority List

84% of companies view visibility as their number 1 initiative #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

Perfect Logistics

• With growing visibility comes growing control

• Opportunity here to simply eliminate many logistics errors that are commonplace today

The race to “perfect logistics” is happening now #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

Leveraging the Internet of Things

• “Autonomous logistics”

• Physical and service supply chain set in motion by real time data

• New business and services offerings

• Need for IT and supply chain to start brainstorming right now

Achieve supply chain and IT goals by working together, not in silo #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

Technologies Available Today

What technologies are available today to create perfect logistics?

What technologies are providing the biggest immediate benefit?

For immediate impact, look to tech that has the ability to connect data #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

RFID’s Role and State of the Market

• RFID adoption rates

• RFID Market expected to grow rapidly, move into new areas

• Item level apparel nearing a tipping point?

RFID volume and adoption rates are growing exponentially #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

RFID – A Maturing Technology

Industry Making Progress

Wide Area Monitoring Becoming Reality Sensitivity Gains More Choices Lower costs

Wide area monitoring is becoming real with multiplexors and overhead readers #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

RFID: Value Proposition

Barcode RFID

Confined by line-of-sight scanning Wireless/no line-of-sight dependency

1:1 Scan Ratio 1:100s Read Ratio

Approaching information storage limits

Significantly more storage capacity

Limited information can be encoded / leveraged

Ability to add/edit data from new and existing sources

Less automated Enables automation

Deeply entrenched Increasingly easy to integrate with limited invasiveness

Hot RFID Applications

Common Supply Chain Applications

– Receiving– Ship Confirm– Physical Inventory– Returnable Tote Tracking– Box Count Validation

Complete Visibility in MFG Supply Chain

Government Furnished Material Rolls

Manufacturer tags Rolls during manufacturing process Links LOT# and manufacturing data to tag ID

Links rolls to Delivery Order Sends RFID tag data to 3PL

Government 3PL Distribution Center

Receives RFID tagged material using RFID Links Rolls to bins using RFID Retrieves/picks required rolls using RFID Links RFID tags to Delivery Order Sends RFID tag data to Uniform Manufacturer

Government Uniform Manufacturer

Receives RFID tagged material using RFID Links Roll to Uniform manufacturing process

Vail EPIC Mix

Keys to Success in the Real World

Keys to implementing RFID tracking technology

Understand your use case(s) Where, What, When, Why

Select the RIGHT RFID Technology Active Passive NFC Rules of physics DO apply!

Follow RFID encoding standards Allows for data sharing Keeps options open

The key to implementing tech successfully – know your business goals first #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

Managing RFID and IoT in the Future

• Predictive analytics?• Sensor data intermixed with

location data• Data availability, security and

management• Future applications

The future? Sensor data with location data, predictive analytics, and more #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

Zatar and IoT in the Future

Zatar is the open, cloud-based way to connect and control your devices.

• Eliminates the complexity of connecting and managing devices, so that you can focus on using them

• Enhance Enterprise Applications with sensor data

• Share access to your devices, make devices public, and easily share data with business partners

Summary Slide

• IoT is the future• RFID and sensors can be deployed

today

• What can you do in YOUR business today if you had visibility gained by RFID and IoT?

Purposefully capture & use data to be more efficient, accurate, & connected #IoT #RFID @BarcodingInc @ZebraTech

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