
RIOgaleão Airport Adopts 3,000 BLE Beacons
Internet of Things technology is helping passengers at the main airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, find services via their smartphones.
Internet of Things technology is helping passengers at the main airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, find services via their smartphones.
Although the market is at its nascent stage, it has registered key growth backed by an increase in the number of connected devices, coupled with increasing internet penetration. Exponential growth is anticipated during the coming years.
The Wawawake extreme water-sport park, located near Warsaw, uses NFC-enabled wristbands and readers to track each rider’s usage, and enables participants to download, edit and share videos of themselves via social media.
RFID Journal’s 15th annual conference and exhibition will be held on May 9-11, at the Phoenix Convention Center, in Arizona.
A system being developed by Stanford University researchers could enable a low-cost Wi-Fi tag to receive transmissions from access points, and to use the energy of those transmissions to send its own unique signal to a laptop or mobile device.