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TRENDING: Robots And Humans Join Forces To Speed eCommerce, Together

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But that often means a lengthy installation process, high price tag and risky gamble that customer expectations and business models won’t shift in a way that makes those installations outdated, said Christopher Cacioppo, chief technology officer of order fulfillment automation service provider 6 River Systems.

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ToneTag CEO Sounds Off On Payments At The Speed Of Sound

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Embracing sound-wave-based technology to facilitate payments, said the executive, enables both payments and proximity engagement services across any device in a manner that remains “independent of the instrument of infrastructure.”. We aim to explore the transport and consumer-internet sectors in the future.”.

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Mobile Smart Kitchens Reinvent Food Delivery

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It takes much land, water, pesticides, electricity and fossil fuel to grow, harvest, package, transport and prepare the food required to make even the simplest possible meals. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich may not look like much on the plate — but it actually takes quite a lot of resources and infrastructure to get it there.

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Using IoT Tech To Drive Grocery Sales

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Amazon Go ’s camera-based approach is too expensive for most, Klein noted, and though applying RFID tags to CPGs can effectively track products, it also eats up profits. “If for an RFID tag to go onto a product that only costs $1 or $2, that could blow up the whole profit margin structure,” he noted. If it costs $0.04

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Why So Many eProcurement Efforts Fail — And How To Fix it

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According to Lundin, healthcare has an enhanced need for shared search capabilities, while transportation demands sourcing and tagging features more than other verticals. Our entire economy, our technology infrastructure is moving toward this specialization and away from generalization,” he said.

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The Challenges Of Securing The Smart Cities Of Tomorrow

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Cybercriminals are waiting in the wings to begin laying virtual siege to infrastructure that the high-tech, highly responsive urban areas envisioned for the not-too-distant future. And “waiting on the wings,” in fact, maybe a slightly misleading way to tag that.

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Barry Ritholtz

And it’s been a big contributor to outsourcing jobs so that most companies don’t hire their own security, their elevator operators, their transport people, they’re, you know, food service people and all the rest of it. Tag on top of that for healthcare. So this puts an enormous burden on low wage workers.