Japanese Retailers Trial UHF E-ink Paper Label
The new RFID-enabled label with e-ink paper, developed by E Ink Corp. and Fujitsu Semiconductor, is intended to boost logistics efficiency in Japan’s convenience store market.
RAIN RFID Alliance Releases Guideline for Simplified Reader Commands
The RAIN Communication Interface guideline provides a way for UHF RFID solution providers to build systems that can communicate with any make or model of reader and operate in multiple applications with different reader types, thus eliminating the need for APIs.
The Future of Data With the Rise of the IoT
Data is the biggest challenge of our age, but the rise of the Internet of Things will create an even bigger data challenge, in which the outputs from a myriad of embedded sensors will be meshed and overlaid to deliver startling new products and services.
Timing Is Right for Watchmaker’s Blockchain, NFC Solution
Favre-Leuba is bringing NFC-based data about each of its watches to blockchain-based software, thanks to a solution from cybersecurity technology company WiseKey that tracks inventory and provides brand authentication and a personalized record of each purchased watch for consumers.
RFID News Roundup
STMicroelectronics intros microcontroller-debugging probe for RFID applications ••• InfluxData, Google Cloud IoT Core integrate to improve IoT environments ••• Signify unveils IoT smart lighting portfolio ••• Telit releases miniature IoT modules for medical wearables, fitness, more ••• myDevices partners with Arm on IoT sensor offerings, joins Arm Pelion IoT platform ecosystem ••• Redpine launches MCUs for smart and secure IoT devices.