Category Archives: Technology

As restaurants seek help to survive the economic impact of COVID-19, lawmakers are implementing a temporary limit on how much delivery companies can charge. On Wednesday (May 13), New York City became the latest city to enact protections for eateries. The City Council approved a 15 percent cap on food delivery fees paid by restaurants to Grubhub, […]

Credit card giant Visa has filed an application for a U.S. patent on a computer system that would convert physical dollars and other fiat currencies into digital versions, complete with denominations and serial numbers and recorded via blockchain. The system would then remove the paper currency from circulation. “According to the [details] discussed herein, the payment ecosystem […]

For many, fashion has taken a back seat as much of the nation’s workforce is doing their jobs at home – in sweats. But as the industry struggles like the rest of the planet due to the coronavirus pandemic, Vogue Magazine, Amazon and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) (the New York City trade […]

The Real-Time Location System (RTLS) market is one of the fastest-growing IoT solution areas. Falling prices for the hardware components used in these systems, as well as a large number of entrants to the market, have created a surge of new solutions.

If you’re asking yourself, ‘What is asset tracking’, you may also be looking for information that goes beyond a simple asset tracking definition.  We’ll cover some basics of asset tracking, but let’s start by answering the basic question:

Wi-Fi is a popular technology choice for calculating the position of an asset tag for a real-time location system (RTLS). The use of Wi-Fi indoor positioning systems has advantages and limitations over other location technologies, like Bluetooth, ultra-wideband (UWB), or ultrasound. Some customers, especially users in healthcare RTLS, have found using existing Wi-FI systems to […]

When we at Link Labs talk with operations executives about locating their assets indoors, the concerns we hear the most pertain to the accuracy, reliability, and data usage of various solutions. Two location methods come up time and again: GPS and Bluetooth indoor positioning.

A real-time location system (RTLS) allows objects or people to be located within buildings. A key feature of an RTLS solution is how accurately it is able to report this location, as this differs by technology from “centimeter accuracy” to “room-level accuracy.” There are other considerations, too, like total cost of ownership, disruption to current […]