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Manufacturing Business Technology, June, 2006
METRO Group, the world's third-largest retailer, used the CeBIT technology fair--held in March in Hannover, Germany--to showcase a mobile RFID reader that is worn by the worker.
The unit--developed by Deister Electronic for METRO AG--includes a headset with voice activation, and a glove with built-in RFID antenna that reads EPCglobal Gen 2 tags to aid proper item picking in the warehouse. The headset receives instructions for order picking. If the wrong item is picked, the worker receives an error message via a wireless LAN link. The result is more efficient picking.
"The big advantage is that the worker's hands are free," says Albrecht von Truchsess, a spokesperson for METRO AG. "He doesn't have to carry a scanner or a clipboard because he...
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