How ‘Connected’ Consumer Products Could Help Reduce Food Waste in the Near Future

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Internet of Products, Retail Technology

Approximately 1.3 billion tonnes or one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption gets wasted every year, amounting to a loss of roughly $680 billion in industrialized countries. More than 40% of this waste and loss occurs at the retail and consumer level. There are a multitude of ways to tackle this […]

Reimagining Smart Cities with the Arrival of Smart Connected Consumer Products

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Internet of Products

Here is an infographic showing “How a Smart City of the future could function with the advent of Smart Connected Products.” We are fast moving towards a future where cities will feature hundreds and thousands of smart connected objects, talking to each other, exchanging and producing meaningful data and insights, basically reshaping the urban landscape […]

Emerging Application Areas for IoT in the Consumer Retail Industry

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Internet of Things (IOT), Retail Technology

Internet of Things is the talk of the town over in construction, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation and home automation. But we are yet to fully tap into the potential of IoT driven solutions to trigger disruption in and deliver value to the consumer retail industry. Enabling smart attributes and inter-connectivity to store assets can have a […]

Future-proofing Clinical Trials Management with Digital Labels & Smart Packaging

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Internet of Products

Growing at a CAGR of 5.7%, the global clinical trials industry is set to be worth $65.2 billion by 2025 as per Grand View Research, Inc. Under the constant stress of a myriad of challenges like complex research designs, stringent and ever-changing regulations, greater demands for consumer transparency, packaging and printing as well as R&D […]

Building Trust in the Digital Marketplace with SmartLabel™

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SmartLabel

A number of brands we’ve talked to about deploying and managing SmartLabel™ for their brands and products ask about the benefits of SmartLabel™ and what it offers over and above printing information directly on the packaging label. There are several commonly talked about benefits from being able to provide more detailed information that would usually […]

IoT Digital Twins in the Consumer Retail Industry

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Internet of Products, Internet of Things (IOT)

With the rise of connected systems and devices, all businesses are undergoing a transformation. This fourth industrial revolution underlined by a combination of digital and physical systems as well as IoT, is playing a key role in this regard & generating data to bring down the marginal cost of delivering goods & services in a […]

With the Arrival of Zero Waste & Packageless Products – What Happens to Label Information & Brand Communication?

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Retail Technology

There has been visible development with regards to sustainable trends across the CPG retail industry. While individuals are becoming mindful of their lifestyles and their environmental footprints, brands are starting to take end-to-end accountability of their production habits. The concept of zero-waste circular economy is also gaining momentum, where the focus is on refining the […]

IoT for Consumer Retail – List of Top Companies & Solutions

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Internet of Products, Internet of Things (IOT)

We’ve compiled a list some of the most prominent companies providing IoT solutions to consumer retailer brands.  Let’s take a look:  1. Qliktag Qliktag IoT Connected Smart Products Platform allows brands and manufactures to assign a QLIKTAG or internet identifier to everyday consumer products and allows them to participate in the Internet of Things.  Enabling […]

Inside the Mind of a Modern Day Conscious Consumer

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Others

Buying behavior is changing. Consumers are far more conscious of what they buy, what they eat, what they put on their bodies and how their purchases impact the environment and others. Today’s consumers are increasingly becoming cautious with their shopping decisions, wanting to know more and more about the products they consume. They are actively […]

How Connected Technology Breathes Life into Brick and Mortar Retail

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Internet of Things (IOT), Retail Technology

Brick and mortar retail is not dead nor dying. There are some things we love about brick and mortar retail outlets which online retail cannot compensate for. Using our senses to make decisions and being able to touch, smell, see and experience products cannot be replicated online. However, the brick and mortar retail experience could […]

Smart Products and Smart Packaging Infographic

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Internet of Products

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Features of IoT Connected Smart Products & Packaging

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Internet of Products, Internet of Things (IOT), Product Information Management

Think back to the last product you consumed! Maybe it was a pack of orange juice or a loaf of bread. What did you do when it reached its shelf life? You probably read some of the information it was able to hold and then tossed it into the bin. Traditional packaging for products have […]