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Drones Connect with RFID to Catalog Inventory

Posted on January 10, 2018 by just2bruce | Leave a comment

A new application from MIT attempts to correct issues of inventory shrinkage ‘in the bins’ as they say.  They use a drone to read the RFID tags on items without sending a human out to scan the bins.

Watch out for flying objects at Home Depot!

  via Drones Connect with RFID to Catalog Inventory

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Posted in Advanced Computing, Logistics, Production Operations, Supply Chains

Tagged drones, innovation, Logistics, RFID, technology, warehouses

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