IoT Aims to Track Free-Ranging Reindeer in Finland

Finnish reindeer herders are testing a LoRaWAN-based solution from Digita and Actility on several dozen alpha female reindeer, in order to track herds of thousands of animals and detect when they may be in danger from predators or vehicles.

IOT News Roundup

AT&T expands smart cities offerings with structure-monitoring solution for U.S. railways, roadways ••• Quanergy, Cisco provide smart-city connected roadway solutions ••• Cybeats raises seed round of investment, led by iNovia Capital, for enterprise IoT infrastructure ••• InfluxData integrates Time Series platform with ThingWorx to simplify IoT developer experience ••• Phunware adds Acuity Brands’ IoT indoor positioning solution to its mapping, navigation and wayfinding offering ••• Smartrac showcases what ‘Internet of Your Things’ has in store ••• InfluxData strengthens position in DevOps monitoring, IoT market ••• Skills shortage in agritech sector holding back IoT innovation, according to Inmarsat.

RFID News Roundup

RFID News Roundup

Nedap intros slim mobile access-control reader ••• Fujitsu Frontech North America unveils biometric customer-authentication, RFID garment-tracking solutions ••• Tyco Retail Solutions collaborates with Google Cloud to power store solutions for digital transformation ••• Ambiq Micro releases Bluetooth 5 Low Energy microcrontrollers ••• INIT Innovation in Transportation secures HQ with STid, ABS Technology, SMARTContactless solutions ••• Atlas RFID Solutions adds bar-code scanning to mobile devices.