For its BattleKasters game app, Artifact Technologies has been installing Bluetooth beacons at fan-based conferences, where an average of 1,000 players have used the technology to cast spells and work their way toward a portal to save the planet.
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Beacons Cast Spell on Mobile Gaming
For its BattleKasters game app, Artifact Technologies has been installing Bluetooth beacons at fan-based conferences, where an average of 1,000 players have used the technology to cast spells and work their way toward a portal to save the planet.
On-Ramp Becomes Ingenu, Announces Public Build-Out
Ingenu is part of an increasingly crowded market of long-range, low-power wireless technologies to support the IoT.
Geisinger Tracks Patients With Disposable RTLS Wristband Tags
The medical center is using CenTrak’s low-cost wristband tags and TeleTracking’s software to provide location information to patients’ families and care providers, and to the hospital’s cleaning staff.
What Is RFID’s Value in the Warehouse?
We don’t really know, since it has never been accurately quantified—and that should change.
IoT News Roundup
Smart-city projects get leg-up from Obama Administration; standards body greenlights new cellular standard for Internet of Things; crowdfunding for IoT home-security device off to strong start.
RFID Helps Tile Maker Keep Costs From Going Through the Roof
Thanks to the system, MCA has reduced the amount of time needed to take inventory of its clay roofing tiles by 98 percent.
RFID News Roundup
Omni-ID intros smallest UHF on-metal printable label ••• Neology, NXP partner on RFID-enabled traffic-management, vehicle ID systems ••• Pittsburgh Penguins adds Rover proximity platform to its beacon installation ••• TagMaster NA announces new UHF sticker tag for vehicle-access applications ••• German hospitals enlist Recall’s RFID-enabled patient record management service ••• Star Systems Int’l provides 1.2 million headlamp tags to Dominican Republic.
New Service Wants to Help IoT Devices Be More Transparent
Taking an approach akin to printing nutritional facts on packaged foods, Privacynq wants to help manufacturers build digital trust in their IoT products.
RFID Brings Security, Location Awareness to First European Games
The athletic event’s security provider, Main Development, used a Mojix UHF RFID solution to track where attendees went within three venues, and to ensure that unauthorized people didn’t enter VIP areas.
An Elemental View of Workplace Wearables
Employees who regularly use their hands to build, move or fix things, or to monitor assets, can benefit from wearable technology. But it’s important to first understand the full range of technologies that comprise wearables for the workplace.
Midwest College Deploys Low-Cost RTLS for Emergencies
The RF Technologies security system consists of pendants affixed to desks and podiums so that instructors can discreetly send a Wi-Fi-based alert to campus police.