IoT News Roundup, Part One

Boston, Chicago, Atlanta top list of cities poised to benefit most from smart-city tech ••• Industrial Internet Consortium, EdgeX Foundry announce liaison ••• Thingstream launches starter kit to simplify global IoT connectivity without the Internet ••• TrackNet builds engineering team to target IoT networks, hardware, localization ••• Verdigris offers API giving customers access to energy data that powers smart buildings.

IoT News Roundup, Part Two

Enforta, Actility announce deployment of IoT network spanning Russian Federation territory ••• Dell Technologies unveils IoT strategy, division and solutions to accelerate customer adoption ••• RoweBots’ Unison RTOS now supports Modbus communication protocol ••• Lorien Health Services preps for IoT, delivers patient-centered care with Aruba network ••• Industrial Internet Consortium, EdgeX Foundry announce liaison.

RFID News Roundup

Impinj enhances RFID distributed operating system ••• Identiv, NXP Semiconductors partner on NFC tag starter kit ••• STMicroelectronics NFC tags to be certified by NFC Forum ••• Ocean Tomo offers patent lot on sensor and RFID technologies ••• Malaysian highway to use RFID tags for toll payments ••• GS1 US accepting proposals for Connect 2018 event ••• Industrial Internet Consortium, EdgeX Foundry announce liaison.