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.
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Wearable Sensor Tracks Horse Health via Wireless Charging, BLE
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.
Agribusiness Reaps Benefits from the Internet of Packaging
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.
Spanish Retailer Rolls Out RFID Across 125 Stores in a Single Month
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.
App Discovers Internet of Things Devices, Alerts Consumers
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.
RFID in Healthcare: Revolutionizing Patient Safety and Changing the Landscape
The technology offers numerous benefits for the healthcare sector, including a reduction in human errors, improved patient safety and augmented task accuracy.
A Healthy Market in an Unhealthy World
During the COVID-19 pandemic’s first year, the real-time location systems sector has seen strong growth at hospitals.
Mine Blasting Gains Intelligence with Wireless RF Solution
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.
RFID News Roundup
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.
Wearable Wristband Leverages NFC, BLE for Worker Security and Health
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.
Panasonic Serves Changing IoT Demands in Warehouses, Stores
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.
Industrial Internet Consortium Launches IIoT RFP Toolkit
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.












