The company will demonstrate what the biggest
names in retail have already realized — that Wiliot's ambient IoT
technology illuminates once-dark parts of the supply chain,
offering real-time, end-to-end visibility of products from
warehouse to store to home.
NEW
YORK, Jan. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Wiliot, the
Internet of Things pioneer whose IoT platform is enabling trillions
of "things" to gain intelligence, is bringing its industry-changing
visibility technology to NRF 2024. Attendees can see first-hand
that retail running on ambient IoT is possible today and experience
the real-time supply chain visibility it enables for retailers,
manufacturers, distributors — even consumers. Wiliot will showcase
real-world applications of its ambient IoT Visibility Platform at
NRF booth 6757.
"Wiliot's customers, which include some of the biggest names
in retail, are leveraging our platform to optimize staffing,
improve the shopping experience, reduce waste, and drive-up sales,"
said Roee Zeiler, Wiliot's Chief
Financial & Revenue Officer. "It provides retailers with
complete visibility of all products in their supply chains and
stores – which is the foundation for better retail operations, from
real-time inventory management to increasingly popular
buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS) sales models. This real-time,
end-to-end visibility of all products everywhere represents the
biggest disruption in retail since the price tag."
Wiliot's ambient IoT Visibility Platform, recently named one of
TIME's Best Inventions of 2023 and Fast Company's 2023 Next Big
Things in Tech, connects the digital and physical worlds through
the company's IoT Pixels, which are stamp-sized, self-powered
compute devices that cost pennies.
These IoT Pixels can attach to any "thing" and connect it to the
internet. Not just expensive things like cars, appliances, and
shipping containers, but also the things like fruits, veggies,
vaccine vials, clothes, crates, and just about everything else.
Once connected, products transmit real-time, item and case-level
information about their location, temperature, humidity, and even
carbon footprint, giving retailers the data they need to improve
supply chain performance, ensure product safety, and optimize staff
time.
"The market for ambient IoT solutions in retail is indeed
exploding as more and more companies realize the benefits of total
visibility," said Dominique Bonte,
Vice President, Verticals/End Markets, ABI Research. "We are
transitioning from billions of items that are manually scanned or
seen once at a choke point, to an addressable market of trillions
of things that can be sensed continuously, end-to-end, without
manual scanning."
Ambient IoT in Action at NRF 2024
During NRF 2024,
Wiliot will demonstrate ambient IoT in action, tracking products in
transit, throughout a warehouse, and within a retail store, showing
in each scenario how the data generated yields a host of important
benefits. Wiliot's NRF demonstrations will showcase three critical
uses that are now scalable thanks to ambient IoT:
- Real-time monitoring of items in transit. Through
truck-based IoT gateways and an integrated telematics system,
attendees will see how the Wiliot Visibility Platform senses
products at a case level as they move through the supply chain. The
capability is currently being rolled out by a major U.S. retailer,
eliminating misloads, mistaken deliveries, and pervasive handling
issues caused by case-level temperature fluctuations. Telematics
solution provider: IoT services company Montage Connect.
- Real-time location of items in a store. Wiliot's
item-level location tracking unlocks a wealth of retail
intelligence. NRF 2024 attendees will see how the Wiliot Visibility
Platform is reinventing inventory management and store design
because staff know exactly what's in-store and where, freeing them
to engage with customers in new ways. Avery
Dennison's atma.io connected product cloud platform unlocks
the power of connected products by assigning unique digital IDs to
every item, providing end-to-end traceability.
- No-labor compliance with food safety regulations.
Wiliot's Visibility Platform automatically generates the
traceability data required to meet reporting requirements of Rule
204 of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which goes into
effect January 2026. At NRF 2024,
Wiliot will demonstrate the platform's ability to capture Critical
Tracking Event data (such as accurate receiving events) and support
total supply chain and cold chain visibility through digital
product passports (DPP) and the company's AI-based Living Web
browser, developed in conjunction with iFoodDS and IBM Food
Trust.
No-labor inventory sensing enabled by ambient IoT represents a
paradigm shift away from current RFID scanning processes. Although
it's not a replacement for retail labor, its automation enables
vastly superior efficiency and accuracy, allowing retailers and
supply chain partners to redeploy valuable workers in
business-enhancing roles.
Wiliot Develops an Ambient IoT Ecosystem
Working with
the biggest names in retail and collaborating with leading
enterprise software companies, Wiliot has developed the integration
ecosystem necessary to deliver turnkey ambient IoT solutions for
retailers. For example, Wiliot's enterprise application integration
with Montage Connect pulls together Wiliot Visibility Platform
data, information from delivery trucks, heat maps from temperature
sensors, and other logistics data into a dashboard view of the
supply chain. And its open-sourced Living Web mobile Augmented
Reality (AR) browser app represents one of the first enterprise
integrations of a digital product passport.
With Living Web, consumers can sense nearby inventory without
labor intensive scanning using their smartphones and Wiliot IoT
Pixels affixed to retail products, and pull up detailed information
about their origins, composition, temperature in transit, carbon
footprint, and more, collected across various systems. This is an
increasingly important application of Wiliot's Visibility Platform,
especially considering the European Union's Strategy for
Sustainable and Circular Textiles, which requires products sold in
the EU to carry Digital Product Passports by 2030.
"This is the hockey-stick moment for ambient IoT and the
breadth of ambient IoT applications shows the depth of our
innovation," Zeiler concluded. "Having arrived in the retail market
in 2023, ambient IoT is now positioned for exponential growth in
2024, thanks to technological advancement; manufacturing scale;
large, live deployments; and successful integration with a growing
ecosystem of enterprise apps. Retailers need ambient IoT, and
ambient IoT is here now."
For more information about Wiliot, visit www.wiliot.com. For a
complete NRF 2024 media kit, including digital imagery, click
here.
About Wiliot
Wiliot is an ambient IoT data carrier
platform company. Our Visibility Platform connects the digital and
physical worlds using IoT Pixels, battery-free smart tags that push
data to the cloud in real-time without human intervention. Our
platform exists within a fast-growing ambient IoT ecosystem. We
have partners in that ecosystem that provide applications, tags,
and edge devices.
Ambient IoT is an evolution of legacy IoT and RFID technologies
with lower costs, end-to-end privacy and security, and the addition
of new intelligence and sensing capabilities. It's on a path to
scaling to trillions thanks to telecommunications standards –
Bluetooth, 5G Advanced, and 802.11 AMP.
Our mission is to make every single thing an agent of change,
enabling ambient IoT by adding intelligence and automation to food,
apparel, packaging, pharmaceuticals, and other products.
Connecting new categories of things through AI and the internet
is transforming manufacturing, distribution, and product use to
deliver on our vision: a minimum waste, full trust, perfectly timed
world where people, profits, and the planet are aligned.
Visit www.wiliot.com to learn more.
About Montage Connect
Montage Connect is a leader in
the IoT intelligent connectivity solutions industry. The
company provides an entire edge-to-cloud, IoT ecosystem, including
gateway devices, sensors, connectivity and visually
programmable alerting and analytics dashboards.
The Montage Ambient IoT infrastructure is a single universal
gateway device which manages the Ambient IoT environment.
Optimized for all mobile and fixed environments, the solution
controls the power distribution, IoT Pixel sensor reading,
connectivity, cloud reporting, additional environmental sensor and
control system interfacing.
The Montage Connect hyper-scalable SaaS cloud
infrastructure expands visualization, anomaly detection, business
process automation and optimization features across any industrial
environment.
Visit www.montage-connect.com to learn more.
About iFoodDS
iFoodDS offers connected traceability,
quality, and food safety solutions, making it easier to deliver
wholesome, fresh, high-quality food products to consumers. iFoodDS
solutions help food companies gain visibility and insight into
their supply chains, transform inspection processes, reduce food
waste, and optimize inventory quality. Its consulting subsidiary,
New Era Partners, helps enterprises navigate the complexities of
FDA's Food Traceability Rule, FSMA 204, to smooth the path to
compliance.
Learn more about the FSMA 204 compliance solution by visiting
www.ifoodds.com.
About Avery
Dennison
Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a
global materials science and digital identification solutions
company that provides branding and information labeling solutions,
including pressure-sensitive materials, radio-frequency
identification (RFID) inlays and tags, and a variety of converted
products and solutions. The company designs and manufactures a wide
range of labeling and functional materials that enhance branded
packaging, carry or display information that connects the physical
and the digital, and improve customers' product performance. The
company serves an array of industries worldwide, including home and
personal care, apparel, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery,
pharmaceuticals and automotive. The company employs approximately
36,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2022
were $9.0 billion. Learn more
at www.averydennison.com.
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