At LogiMAT 2017, an IoT smart tag developed by Conbee GmbH was voted as the best product of the year.

Managing Director Michael Nickolai explains the advantages of the sensor as follows:
Using IoT smart tags, companies are able to improve their warehouse concepts, save resources and optimize their logistics processes across the entire supply chain. Effective generation of information becomes child’s play. The intelligent sensors transmit data and information about the environment, condition and movement of all vehicles and equipment on the company premises in real time.

The battery-powered Smart Tag has also been optimized for maximum battery life with minimum energy consumption and performs its services for up to three years even when used intensively. The IoT Smart Tag is also available in two extremely robust (ruggedized) versions aimed at the industrial market in harsh environments.

The designers and engineers from industrialpartners and their creative ideas were responsible for product design, housing development and construction for the smart sensors B200R – Rugged Smart TAG and B400R – Rugged Smart TAG.

Small but nice: The robust B200R has the special feature of an integrated temperature monitoring. This allows critical processes to be monitored using the tag smart to control and monitor: For example, compliance with the cold chain for certain products or the triggering of an alarm when critical thresholds are reached. The integrated radio module
transmits the acquired sensor data wirelessly and therefore does not require a SIM card. The IoT smart tag B400R is also characterized by its robust housing, offers authentication functions as a configurable tag and is fraud-proof.

Intelligent algorithms for motion analysis as well as energy-efficient and secure data transmission are essential factors for innovative IoT products that digitize operational processes quickly and cost-effectively. Not only internal processes can be digitized with the help of the IoT Smart
Tag procedures can be optimized. Vandalism and theft can also be avoided thanks to the sensors and the associated hardware and software.

With the innovative production system HP Multi Jet Fusion 4200, the team of
industrialpartners has started the production severall small series of IoT Smart Tags to support Conbee`s first product installations. Several thousands of the smart tags were produced using the rapid prototyping process, which is used to produce high quality speed combined with low turnaround times and low material costs, yet is one of the most cost-effective additive manufacturing processes.

Whether goods logistics, airport logistics, construction site logistics or warehouse logistics: Everywhere, where search times minimized, operations optimized, cycle processes improved or simply the overview of the inventory should be kept, the modular and scalable IoT Smart Tag offers fast and easy access to efficient solutions.

The possibility of adaptation to individual application requirements in combination with high process reliability and more transparency in asset management, IoT smart tag sensors will be the new stars in the intralogistics world.

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Rapitag allows customers to pay for the selected product with their smartphone directly on the shelf. In a large German electronics chain in Munich, technology has already found its way into the headphone department. Anyone who wants to enjoy new headphones here can enjoy the innovative payment technology. The buyer simply downloads an app onto his smartphone. After registering and paying for the desired headphones, the customer holds the mobile phone to the product’s anti-theft device. This is then automatically unlocked, then remains in the store and the customer can leave the store with the goods.

There is no need to queue up at the checkout.

When you read the article and think of the self-checkout systems of a large Swedish furniture store and some supermarkets, you may not be completely wrong, but the novelty and innovation of Rapitag is the added value for the customer. What exactly does that mean? Queuing is queuing. It doesn’t really matter whether a customer is standing in line at the central checkout or at a self-checkout checkout. Both cost valuable time. This is exactly what Rapitag wants to help customers save. Even with mobile payment there is no real added value for the customer – although he can pay with his smartphone, he still has to queue and wait at the classic checkout line. This is where the Munich-based company’s new technology comes in: on the one hand, it wants to provide customers with a simple and convenient shopping experience and, on the other, it wants to offer retailers security with its intelligent anti-theft device.

According to their own statement, the founders of the innovative technology are in negotiations with several large European and American fashion chains. They see the main advantage of their invention for retailers in the fact that traditional retailing with Rapitag can regain more influence in a market dominated by e-commerce. The introduction of the new technology can help to market one’s own business in the media as extremely innovative. Both retailers and customers under time pressure can benefit from the intelligent Rapitag anti-theft system.

The innovative project was realized by the engineering and design office “industrialpartners”, among others. The German company, with offices in Frankfurt am Main, the Odenwald and the Chinese port city of Tianjin, accompanies its customers from the first brilliant idea to the development of the entire product. With the intelligent anti-theft device, the creative heads of “industrialpartners” were responsible for the concept development of the housing solution for the actual day, the subsequent mechanical development and the production of a 300 piece small series of these tags. For the production of the small series, the team, which received several awards for its design ideas, used the HP Multi Jet Fusion 4200 production system. This system makes it possible for the first time to produce components with an almost 100% density, which surpass laser-sintered parts in terms of strength and load-bearing capacity and are also virtually isotropic. The advantages of high speed and low material costs, combined with extremely short turnaround times, make this rapid prototyping process one of the most cost-effective additive manufacturing processes and can replace the conventional plastic injection moulding process for the production of small series on an industrial scale.

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The product is produced in a small series of a few hundred pieces per year in these tools.

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Das Produkt wird in einer Kleinserie von wenigen Hundert Stück pro Jahr in Alluminiumwerkzeugen gefertigt.

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