Smartrac and SensThys have partnered to develop a moisture-, humidity- and temperature-sensing solution that is being piloted for roof leak detection and concrete curing; the technology companies are also selling a starter kit for a variety of use cases.
There are many advantages for third-party manufacturers, brand owners and retailers. Here are the big ones.
Major companies ranging from Walmart to Smucker’s have started implementing blockchain to track shipments. Find out what’s happening and what the technology’s results look like today.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology division is working with the Open Geospatial Consortium and the City of St. Louis to develop an integrated emergency-response system that will include sensors and software to detect and respond to river floods, flash floods, fires, car accidents and stranded individuals.
CISC Semiconductor extends its RFID reader and tag portfolio; CAEN RFID intros fixed reader for industrial and outdoor installations; iDTRONIC offers Android 9-based handheld RFID readers; IoT company Particle raises $40 million in funding led by Qualcomm Ventures, Energy Impact Partners; NiceLabel unveils new ABAP package that supports RFID.
The company’s 2019 “Intelligent Enterprise Index” finds greater planning is taking place among Internet of Things adopters in retail, manufacturing, health care and logistics to ensure that systems are secure and that data can be potentially shared with partners.
Many companies have an outdated view of radio frequency identification technology, but you can’t educate people who don’t want to learn.
The forest products company has been leading an effort to introduce paper-based RFID tags; it now has the capacity to sell its five new retail RFID ECO labels to service bureaus at a rate of 500 to 800 million annually.
Brighter AB’s Actiste system, being piloted in the United Arab Emirates, tests glucose levels and administers insulin with a single device, then saves the related data and forwards it to authorized parties, such as doctors and family members.
As colleges strive to attract the best students, they must provide an autonomous experience that is intuitive, personalized and connected; the Internet of Things can help.
T-Systems and Valid have jointly developed a system to identify stored products and optimize distribution center operations.
Smartrac offers UHF RFID beer keg tags; JADAK unveils RFID starter kit; HID Global helps BigWise add fingerprint biometric authentication to POS solution; Traxens selects AVSystem IoT platform for smart container management; Nordic Semiconductor intros modem based on its LTE-M/NB-IoT SiP; Thingstream launches connectivity solution for LoRaWAN networks; OptConnect adds Banyan Hills Technologies’ IoT platform canopy to its development kits.