Tapwow, Avery Dennison intro NFC tag kit; NXP launches secure IoT edge device cloud platform; Senet, New Cosmos USA partner on LoRaWAN natural gas alarm; Avnet Silica, Insight SiP team up for BLE, LPWAN modules; Industrial Internet Consortium offers IIoT test drives; Soracom unveils IoT connectivity pricing.
American Equus will soon release a solution that tracks the health and conditions of racehorses as they compete or train, with an ankle device that measures vital statistics and sends that data via BLE, using wireless charging from Energous.
Thanks to RFID technology, farms can control production and inventories, factories can guarantee product authenticity and proper packaging disposal, and customers can thus know what they are consuming.
With a solution from Nedap, Encuentro Moda has achieved 98 percent stock accuracy at the first store of its rollout; the women’s fashion company hopes to boost sales, reduce excess inventory and improve margins.
Carnegie Mellon University’s IoT Assistant provides GPS-based alerts regarding devices within a person’s vicinity and offers options for viewing cameras, beacons and other wireless devices that might be collecting or sharing data.
The technology offers numerous benefits for the healthcare sector, including a reduction in human errors, improved patient safety and augmented task accuracy.
During the COVID-19 pandemic’s first year, the real-time location systems sector has seen strong growth at hospitals.
Davey Bickford Enaex will continue to work with CEA-Leti for three more years to commercialize a proprietary wireless protocol-based system that sends and receives transmissions between a blast controller and thousands of detonators at mining sites.
Omni-ID adds Quuppa tech to IoT devices, unveils IoT middleware; STMicroelectronics offers new Type-5 NFC tags, joins ZETA Alliance; Semtech releases chipset for LoRaWAN network coverage; Link Labs’ IoT evaluation kit available at Amazon; Elatec intros RFID reader for integrated access control, NFC; LoRa Alliance announces LoRaWAN roaming in more than 25 countries.
Companies are deploying a Nymi solution with Elatec readers to enable workers to access clean rooms and offices, use secure computers and printers, and monitor social distancing.
The company’s latest Internet of Things offerings are being provided with a layered approach to meet customers’ challenges during and after the pandemic, mixing HF, NFC, UHF, BLE and other technologies, depending on individual use cases.
The kit is intended to guide companies through the process of procuring the components and resources required for an Industrial Internet of Things solution, and the IIC has also partnered with CESMII to accelerate the adoption of IIoT technologies.