The soon-to-be released reference design from Ambiq includes sensor technology from Bosch Sensortec to track gas, humidity, pressure and temperature. With PV energy capture, the devices make wireless sensors easier to deploy and data available via BLE or...
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IoT Sniffs for Smoke to Prevent Wildfires
Dryad’s fire detection system now leverages HF RFID chips to enable shippers to set the LoRa frequency on the device according to where the device is used. The sensors are now in place across North America, Europe, Asia and South America to detect smoke before...
RFID Helps Laundry Serve London’s Five Star Hotels
The HID Global Acuity solution enables Royal Jersey Laundry to better manage the thousands of fine linens that must be segregated, cleaned, pressed and returned to area hotels. With RFID readers at the laundry itself and in some hotels; the full supply chain of...
Fast Growing Tageos Opens U.S. RFID Production
The new production facility is located in Fletcher, N.C. By the end of 2024, the facility will have the capability to produce more than four billion units per year Set in an industrial park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Tageos’ newly opened RFID plant...
NFC Forum Adds New Capabilities to Certification Program
New capabilities have been added to the certification program to simplify the testing of NFC end-products. A streamlining of testing requirements was done to evaluate how the device will behave depending on the intended use of the product The NFC Forum recently...
MasterCard Settles NFC Lawsuit with Payvox
Details of the agreement were not disclosed MasterCard was one of eight companies sued by Payvox Payvox has reached an agreement in one of their lawsuits over patent infringement related to their use of NFC technology. According to a filing on May 10, “the...
Microsoft, RFID Discovery, Grydd, SparkFun: RFID News Roundup
New RFID technology Being Used by Brook Taverner RFID Discovery has implemented its conveyor belt portal solution at Brook Taverner, enabling the company to check up to 25,000 garments in less than 60 minutes. Using RFID tags fitted into garments during manufacture,...
Factory Growth in Africa Includes RFID Facility in Nairobi
NexGen Packaging has opened its African headquarters to provide packaging and labels, including RFID tags to garment and footwear manufacturers. The Nairobi facility will serve companies throughout the continent and employ 100 to 125 people. NexGen Packaging...
Kyoto Tools Releases RFID-Connected Products with Xerafy
Xerafy has designed custom antenna technology to provide an RFID tag that can be conformed to the tool its being embedded in. The antenna technology is part of a Connected Tools solution that can include engagement platform so that users can view details about...
NASA Looking to Use Purdue Robots on Moon, Mars
Purdue University researchers have completed early testing of robots using three different “end effectors” that act as hands to uniquely manipulate items (Photo courtesy of Purdue University/Jared Pike) With computer vision and onboard machine learning, the...
RFID Tracks AV Assets at James Madison University
The solution from A2B Tracking was built to be simple and easy to use, with handheld readers and smartphones with an app. Data is managed in the cloud so that the university can track location and maintenance records of thousands of high value assets, from...
Chasm Adds Production Facility for Transparent Antennas
The company’s clear, carbon-nanotube based material is being used or tested for NFC, Bluetooth, ZigBee, 5G and other wireless networks for automotive and other markets. Antennas will be offered with phased-array functionality by next year. Since releasing a...