Zebra’s new FXR90 can accommodate extreme weather conditions, includes cellular connectivity to read RFID tag in vehicles, outdoors RFID tag readings have traditionally been largely restricted to indoor portals or desktops, with recent expansion to handheld readers...
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New Technology Aims at Easy, Low Power IoT for Manufacturing
The new BLE-enabled module and software platform from TDK are part of the company’s drive to make sensor-based equipment monitoring with AI For those in industrial settings, digital management of machine operation may be easier, with a new solution and sensor from...
FTC Begins Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence
The federal agency issued orders to five companies— Amazon, Google and Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued orders to five companies requiring them to provide information about their investments and partnerships involving...
Cannabis Operators Say They Have Little to Show for Track-and-Trace Investments
(This story is part of the cover package in the January -February issue of MJBizMagazine.) With 23 state contracts to provide cannabis track-and-trace software and RFID tags under its belt, Lakeland, Florida-based Metrc has risen to dominate the space. But more than a...
Mojix, Renesas, PervasID: RFID Journal News Roundup
Mojix generative AI featured in new solution, Renesas announces new Bluetooth Low Energy SoC, PervasID launches advanced version of TrackMaster Mojix Released Generative AI Features in New Solution Item level visibility solutions company Mojix has released a new tool...
Collaboration Leads to Cold Chain Management RTLS
Identiv and Energous are providing a real-time asset tracking solution for monitoring temperature-sensitive items through the supply chain Energous and Identiv have partnered to offer a solution leveraging their collective technology with Wiliot Ambient IoT Pixel...
California ISO Automates Emergency Evacuation with BLE
The RTLS solution from Telaeris and HID Global is now being released commercially for mustering management. Electricity operator California Independent System Operator (ISO) has been ramping up its Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) solution that tracks the location of...
RFID and Camera Technology Beef up Cattle Management
HerdWhistle's UHF solution is being adopted in North America, Australia and Europe in crowded feed lots While short-range LF RFID is used to track cattle and other livestock in feedlots throughout much of the world, ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID systems can provide...
Swedish County Gains Intelligence with IoT
Jönköping is using sensors and software platform from TH1NG to manage water, sewer and other services across its 13 municipalities. Jönköping County, which encompasses 13 municipalities in southern Sweden, is piloting LoRaWAN-based, IoT technology to manage services...
Radix IoT, Packetcraft, Avnet: RFID Journal News Roundup
Radix IoT releases enhanced IoT platform, Packetcraft offers demo kit for Embedded BLE, Avnet brings LoRaWAN and Amazon Sidewalk to its IoTConnect Radix IoT Releases Enhanced IoT Platform IoT Technology company Radix IoT LLC released its Mango 5.1 IoT platform–an...
Editor’s Note: Reflections on NRF from the RFID World
The use of RFID was front and center at the convention. But questions about AI is the thing that stayed with me the most RFID and AI. At the 2024 National Retail Federation (NRF) expo in New York City this past week, those were the two buzzwords that were heard (and...
Open-Source Developer Tools Aim at IoT Digital Twins
ScaleOut Software is offering a no-cost digital twin API as part of its hosting platform to ease development for IoT deployments To deliver no-cost, open-standard development tools for IoT solutions, Seattle-based company ScaleOut Software has released its open-source...