Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Omnitrol Networks Selected by Firstlight Foods and TRiDENT RFID to Integrate RFID Tracking and Traceability in Meat-rocessing Plants

Omnitrol Networks announced today that it has partnered with TRiDENT RFID to supply an RFID-based solution to Firstlight Foods to automatically capture complete pedigree, and track venison and beef processing in real time. TRiDENT RFID is a leader in integrating RFID technology in the fresh produce sector, overcoming well-known barriers associated with using UHF RFID technology to track high water content products like meat and produce. The solution will enable Firstlight Foods to automatically track venison and beef production, and to accurately generate electronic meat pedigree records enabling field-to-fork traceability.

Read more or watch the video here.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

In-house 'app stores' ease tablet-management woes

Excellent article from ComputerWorld about the challenges of managing BringYourOwnDevice (BYOD) in the enterprise. The consumerization of IT and the proliferation of new devices like the ipad are changing the face of application management within the enterprise. The article highlights the three approaches to application deployment:
  • Use internal app store to control delivery and update of employee LOB apps
  • Use mixed model to allow employees to use externally developed apps
  • Total app freedom
Each enterprise will have different requirements to choose one of the above strategies. The key is to choose an infrastructure and back-end integration that will allow the transition from one to the other based on new requirements.