Internet of Customers: Customer Experience Automation Meets IoT?
The Internet of Things creates many new types of customer touchpoints and communication channels, which can fundamentally change how you manage the customer relationship.
McDonald’s, Other Companies Test TAG Sensors’ RFID Temperature Loggers
The data logger—in the form of a passive RFID inlay and a battery-powered sensor embedded in an adhesive label—is designed to provide a low-cost method of tracking products’ environmental conditions throughout the supply chain.
IoT News Roundup
LoRa network coming to Gothenburg, Semtech adding geolocation; PARC announces machine health monitoring platform; Ayla Network lands $39 million, growing Chinese presence; STMicroelectronics releasing Bluetooth system-on-chip; Cisco announces LPWAN module for its industrial routers.
Inventor-e Launches Hybrid Auto-ID Solutions
The U.K. company is offering its Smartie tags and iSite readers, along with apps and software to manage deployments that can combine Bluetooth beacons with EPC and NFC passive RFID tags.
A Wearable That Listens for Troubling Coughs
CoughAware has been designed to help caregivers of children or elderly patients to respond quickly to impeding asthma or COPD respiratory attacks, and possibly avoid the need for hospitalization.