January 24, 2026
QR Codes That Can't Be Copied: Cryptographic Signatures and Time-Limited Tokens
Interactive demo of cryptographically signed QR codes with TOTP-style time limits and one-time use tokens. Scan to see anti-replication in action.
December 16, 2025
5W2H Analysis for Operations Traceability: The Framework That Reveals What You're Actually Tracking
Before choosing RFID vs QR codes, define what you're actually tracking. Learn how 5W2H analysis reveals hidden requirements and prevents costly automation mistakes.
December 9, 2025
Digital Transformation in Sterilisation Services
How QR tracking and paperless workflows are revolutionizing gamma irradiation, ETO, E-beam, and steam sterilisation with real-world ROI calculations.
September 10, 2025
Automated Scanning for SOP Compliance: Eliminating Human Error in Assembly Lines
Manual scanning processes in manufacturing lead to errors, missed steps, and quality issues. Learn how automated code sequence scanning ensures 100% SOP compliance.
August 15, 2025
Asset Management vs Asset Tracking: Why Location Isn't Enough
Tracking tells you where assets are. Management tells you how they're performing, when they need maintenance, and when to retire them.
July 10, 2025
GoDesi's Complete Factory Operations Platform
RM-to-FG inventory management with ERPNext integration plus moisture-adaptive process monitoring for sweets manufacturing.
May 10, 2025
ERPs Repeat The Lies We Tell Them: Why Operations Data Accuracy Matters
Your ERP is only as good as the data you feed it. When operations rely on manual data entry, discrepancies compound.
October 24, 2024
How Do QR Codes Work? An Interactive Demo
An interactive dive into QR codes and their various features. Explore information density and error correction.
June 15, 2023
Store Inventory Management with RFID and QR
How to implement store inventory management using RFID and QR code technologies for accurate tracking and visibility.
May 30, 2023
Boosting Employee Productivity with WMS
Warehouse operations play a pivotal role in the supply chain, and businesses face numerous challenges in optimising labour costs and enhancing employee productivity.
May 16, 2023
Streamlining Each Stage of Your Supply Chain with WMS
Efficient inventory management is crucial for businesses to minimise wastage and pilferage.
April 29, 2023
Role Of Data Analytics In Warehouse Management
The modern warehouse is now more than just a place to store goods. Discover the role of data analytics.
April 15, 2023
Impact Of E-commerce On Warehouse Management
The growth of e-commerce has brought about significant changes in how warehouses operate.
March 30, 2023
How A WMS Can Help With Inventory Control
Warehouse management is a crucial aspect of any business. Learn how WMS helps with inventory control.
March 15, 2023
How Your WMS Can Improve Order Picking Efficiency
Warehouse management systems have revolutionised inventory and supply chains.
February 28, 2023
Enhancing Efficiency with WMS: Inventory, Layout, Shipping
Customers expect fast and reliable shipping times. Learn how WMS enhances efficiency.
February 15, 2023
The Basics Of Warehouse Management Systems
A warehouse management system (WMS) is designed to streamline and optimise warehouse operations.
December 15, 2022
ERPs for Warehouse Management
An ERP system is software designed to streamline information between a company's processes.
August 22, 2022
Turnaround Time and Workflow Automation
How long does it take you to complete a process? Learn about turnaround time and workflow automation.
August 17, 2022
Cloud-Based Inventory Management & Traceability
For low-margin grocery and food companies, robust inventory tracking is the difference between profit and loss.
August 2, 2022
Choosing The Right Label For Your Product
Labels can be made from plastic, paper or vinyl. How do you know which label is right for your needs?
July 4, 2022
Getting Meat Packaging Labels Right
Eliminate errors and ensure compliance with proper meat packaging labels.
June 30, 2022
Packaging Labels In The Online Meat Delivery Industry
A look at packaging labels and their importance in the online meat delivery industry.
June 16, 2022
Inventory Shrinkage In Grocery Ecommerce
The grocery business is a famously low margin business. Learn how to combat inventory shrinkage.
January 25, 2022
Monitor Your Factory Floor Fleet of ESP Nodes with rsyslog
Track down problems and examine what your ESP32 devices have done on the factory floor.
January 20, 2022
No Single Way To Weigh
Weighing is one of the most common operations in the logistics workflow.
June 20, 2021
Using client and server certificate bundles to secure and mutually authenticate ESP32 connections
This article will show you some simple steps of how to use client and server certificate bundles to secure your communications and to achieve mutual authentication.
May 17, 2021
Automating your firmware upload, device-cloud configuration and monitoring for the IoT world
Designing a "smart" product should also include the vision of fast firmware uploading, configuring device with the cloud securely and automation to meet demands and keep important data pouring seamlessly into the cloud.
March 26, 2021
WiFi configuration on the ESP32 over Bluetooth
A simple pre-thought out plan to include this feature could save you huge hassles of re-deployment of your ESP32-enabled WiFi connected devices in the long run.
March 17, 2021
Easy To Use Building Blocks For EPS32 Applications - Network configuration.
Having shipped over 50000 ESP32 powered IoT devices, we have distilled our learnings into easy to use open source building blocks.
March 14, 2021
Hands On With AWS IoT, Timestream and Grafana
We integrate AWS IoT with the brand new AWS managed Grafana, compare it with ODFE and make a recommendation.
March 13, 2021
Selecting a Suitable RFID System For Your Operations
There are multiple RFID standards. we present a few simple rules to choose the right one for your application.
March 10, 2021
Excited by Machine Learning for intelligence at the edge? Make sure it's the right tool for your job.
IoT devices can generate a lot of data, and of course there is a natural interest to apply machine learning techniques to look for trends and patterns. Of course, we have plenty of tools up in the cloud, and it is certainly possible to build a solution this way for some use cases.
March 9, 2021
Easy to use GSM and GPS building blocks for mobile IoT devices
Among the numerous applications that IoT technology has been applied to, there is a large class of applications that need some unique capabilities from their underlying hardware platform in order to enable their construction.
February 18, 2021
Over-the-air (OTA) updating your IoT system? Plenty to think about before you sign up.
Among the more critical building blocks of an IoT solution, and one which should be thought about sooner than later is the concept of over-the-air (OTA) updates to your deployed fleet of devices.
February 17, 2021
Anomaly Detection For IoT Using Open Distro For ElasticSearch
Real time anomaly detection is now part of ODFE and allows applications such as predictive maintenance.
January 28, 2021
Server Side Time Series Plots With Elixir Using Contex
Contex makes creating server side plots easy with Elixir but the documentation could be better.
January 5, 2021
From Metal To Alerts With AWS IoT, ElasticSearch 7.9 and Kibana
AWS IoT and ElasticSearch with Kibana is a classic combination for quick, scalable visualisations, analytics and alerts. This stack has only gotten better in 2020.
December 23, 2020
From Metal To Alerts With AWS IoT, Timestream and QuickSight
AWS IoT and aligned PaaS offerings have come a long way since being launched in the early 2010s. They allow you to build robust, scalable workflows for cloud-connected IoT applications.
December 3, 2020
IoT's big dirty secret - It's the cloud!
It all arises because of the dependence of the vast majority of IoT solutions on a cloud back-end.
November 7, 2020
Weighty problems, Simple Solutions
When you are building IoT systems, one of the more difficult (and not yet satisfactorily solved) problems is the establishment of the semantics of a measurement that an IoT device reports up the food chain.
November 7, 2020
More from the X-Files... Weird ways to solve IoT measurement problems
No, not those X-Files. I am talking about those interesting measurement stories where we were, like Mulder and Scully desperately seeking a solution to a complicated problem.
October 30, 2020
The Internet of Things Lemon
This is a picture of a simple lemon that I bought in the grocery store the other day. This particular brand of lemon is really juicy. It's also an organic lemon which is important if you are going to use some of the rind for zest in your salad dressing recipe.