Insights on Operations Traceability & IoT
Operations
December 16, 2025
Before choosing RFID vs QR codes, define what you're actually tracking. Learn how 5W2H analysis reveals hidden requirements and prevents costly automation mistakes.
Healthcare
December 10, 2025
Multi-location aesthetic clinics lose thousands monthly to expired products and inventory shrinkage. Learn how QR automation with Zoho integration cuts write-offs by 90%.
Heavy Industry
December 10, 2025
How leading cement manufacturers achieve 99% inventory accuracy and 50% faster PI/PV using RFID, QR codes, and SAP integration across 30,000+ material codes.
Pharmaceuticals
December 9, 2025
How QR tracking and paperless workflows are revolutionizing gamma irradiation, ETO, E-beam, and steam sterilisation with real-world ROI calculations.
Case Studies
November 15, 2025
See how India's largest online grocer uses QR codes, IoT scales, and automated workflows to maintain 99% inventory accuracy.
Case Studies
October 5, 2025
BLE sensors with offline capabilities for 24/7 cold chain monitoring across freezers, chillers, and dark stores.
Case Studies
September 20, 2025
How Vedanta uses RFID and weight scales for autonomous tracking of copper and aluminum across heavy manufacturing facilities.
Productivity Monitoring
September 10, 2025
Manual scanning processes in manufacturing lead to errors, missed steps, and quality issues. Learn how automated code sequence scanning ensures 100% SOP compliance.
Asset Management
August 15, 2025
Tracking tells you where assets are. Management tells you how they're performing, when they need maintenance, and when to retire them.
Case Studies
July 10, 2025
RM-to-FG inventory management with ERPNext integration plus moisture-adaptive process monitoring for sweets manufacturing.
Technology
June 20, 2025
Not all tracking technologies are created equal. Learn when to use RFID, barcodes, QR codes, or BLE sensors.
Operations
May 10, 2025
Your ERP is only as good as the data you feed it. When operations rely on manual data entry, discrepancies compound.
Technology
October 24, 2024
An interactive dive into QR codes and their various features. Explore information density and error correction.
Inventory Management
May 16, 2023
Efficient inventory management is crucial for businesses to minimise wastage and pilferage.
Inventory Management
April 29, 2023
The modern warehouse is now more than just a place to store goods. Discover the role of data analytics.
Inventory Management
April 15, 2023
The growth of e-commerce has brought about significant changes in how warehouses operate.
Inventory Management
March 30, 2023
Warehouse management is a crucial aspect of any business. Learn how WMS helps with inventory control.
Inventory Management
March 15, 2023
Warehouse management systems have revolutionised inventory and supply chains.
Inventory Management
February 28, 2023
Customers expect fast and reliable shipping times. Learn how WMS enhances efficiency.
Inventory Management
February 15, 2023
A warehouse management system (WMS) is designed to streamline and optimise warehouse operations.
Inventory Management
December 15, 2022
An ERP system is software designed to streamline information between a company's processes.
Operations
August 22, 2022
How long does it take you to complete a process? Learn about turnaround time and workflow automation.
Inventory Management
August 17, 2022
For low-margin grocery and food companies, robust inventory tracking is the difference between profit and loss.
Operations
August 2, 2022
Labels can be made from plastic, paper or vinyl. How do you know which label is right for your needs?
Cold Chain
July 13, 2022
1.3 trillion kgs. That's the amount of food we as a society waste every year.
Cold Chain
July 4, 2022
Eliminate errors and ensure compliance with proper meat packaging labels.
Cold Chain
June 30, 2022
A look at packaging labels and their importance in the online meat delivery industry.
Inventory Management
June 16, 2022
The grocery business is a famously low margin business. Learn how to combat inventory shrinkage.
Technology
January 25, 2022
Track down problems and examine what your ESP32 devices have done on the factory floor.
Operations
January 20, 2022
Weighing is one of the most common operations in the logistics workflow.
Asset Management
January 15, 2022
The tracking of various entities in a commercial enterprise, from capital equipment to inventory.
Technology
October 20, 2021
In this article I will give you a brief introduction to these standards and show how our raw RFID data gets transformed as it moves through the business process hierarchy.
Technology
June 20, 2021
This article will show you some simple steps of how to use client and server certificate bundles to secure your communications and to achieve mutual authentication.
Technology
June 20, 2021
While the ESP32 has many development boards available on the market, sometimes you want a minimally sized version that can easily mount on your own pcb.
Technology
June 12, 2021
Manually preparing devices to connect to AWS IoT Core can be cumbersome, especially in large numbers. We present a script to help you prepare devices fast and reliably while storing certificates in the SPIFFS partition.
Technology
May 17, 2021
Designing a "smart" product should also include the vision of fast firmware uploading, configuring device with the cloud securely and automation to meet demands and keep important data pouring seamlessly into the cloud.
Technology
March 26, 2021
A simple pre-thought out plan to include this feature could save you huge hassles of re-deployment of your ESP32-enabled WiFi connected devices in the long run.
Technology
March 17, 2021
Having shipped over 50000 ESP32 powered IoT devices, we have distilled our learnings into easy to use open source building blocks.
Technology
March 14, 2021
We integrate AWS IoT with the brand new AWS managed Grafana, compare it with ODFE and make a recommendation.
Technology
March 13, 2021
There are multiple RFID standards. we present a few simple rules to choose the right one for your application.
Technology
March 10, 2021
IoT devices can generate a lot of data, and of course there is a natural interest to apply machine learning techniques to look for trends and patterns. Of course, we have plenty of tools up in the cloud, and it is certainly possible to build a solution this way for some use cases.
Technology
March 9, 2021
Among the numerous applications that IoT technology has been applied to, there is a large class of applications that need some unique capabilities from their underlying hardware platform in order to enable their construction.
Technology
February 18, 2021
Among the more critical building blocks of an IoT solution, and one which should be thought about sooner than later is the concept of over-the-air (OTA) updates to your deployed fleet of devices.
Technology
February 17, 2021
Real time anomaly detection is now part of ODFE and allows applications such as predictive maintenance.
Technology
January 28, 2021
Contex makes creating server side plots easy with Elixir but the documentation could be better.
Technology
January 5, 2021
AWS IoT and ElasticSearch with Kibana is a classic combination for quick, scalable visualisations, analytics and alerts. This stack has only gotten better in 2020.
Technology
December 23, 2020
AWS IoT and aligned PaaS offerings have come a long way since being launched in the early 2010s. They allow you to build robust, scalable workflows for cloud-connected IoT applications.
Technology
December 15, 2020
Websockets are a communication protocol that allow the creation of persistent, bidirectional communication channels between client and server.
Technology
December 3, 2020
It all arises because of the dependence of the vast majority of IoT solutions on a cloud back-end.
Technology
November 7, 2020
When you are building IoT systems, one of the more difficult (and not yet satisfactorily solved) problems is the establishment of the semantics of a measurement that an IoT device reports up the food chain.
Technology
November 7, 2020
No, not those X-Files. I am talking about those interesting measurement stories where we were, like Mulder and Scully desperately seeking a solution to a complicated problem.
Technology
October 30, 2020
This is a picture of a simple lemon that I bought in the grocery store the other day. This particular brand of lemon is really juicy. It's also an organic lemon which is important if you are going to use some of the rind for zest in your salad dressing recipe.
