Project CHIP, led by the Zigbee Alliance, is expanding its efforts from a connected-home open internet standard to include commercial IoT products, with the aim of helping the industry develop solutions with Wi-Fi-, BLE- and Thread-based technologies using a standard IP backbone.
Value chains will be connected by a digital thread as digital-transformation initiatives accelerate amid the ongoing pandemic.
Flogistix has deployed a solution from UrsaLeo that provides sensor data on a 3D digital twin, with which mechanics can explore the conditions and operation of compressors or other equipment digitally, as well as provide remote remediation.
The two companies will now be part of the industry association, which seeks RFID tracking standardization in the healthcare sector.
In the Internet of Things space, artificial intelligent and machine learning can assist in identifying vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
The extendable device, developed by RFID Sherpas, enables the retailer to nearly eliminate the use of ladders when employees conduct daily RFID-based inventory counts, reducing count times and injury risk.
This past year has undeniably been a nightmare, but better times are around the corner and RFID Journal’s 2021 event lineup can help companies return to normalcy as we finally begin to put the pandemic behind us.
Fresenius Kabi, Kit Check collaborate on RFID inventory-management solution; LoRa Alliance intros zero-touch device provisioning for Internet of Things; Avnet offers BLE-IoT cellular module with Nordic Semiconductor tech; IOTech, RSA partner on security-monitoring software; Filipino Dept. of Transportation urged to extend RFID deadline; STMicroelectronics joins UWB Alliance; A2B Tracking updates its software platform’s RFID capabilities.
SiFive’s HiFive Inventor Coding Kit comes with Wi-Fi and BLE functionality to drive Internet of Things programming for inventors ranging from seven-year-old students solving a quest to commercial companies creating solutions for smart-city and wearable technologies.
The Federal Communications Commission is seeking input regarding restrictions and legal liability that could be imposed on RF equipment manufacturers.
A solution from Altran, containing a Renesas Electronics UWB microcontroller and a 3db Access low-power chip, consists of a wearable wristband that wakes up via BLE when individuals are in close proximity, then calculates their distance within centimeters.
Continental deployed a system that utilizes UWB sensors on automatic guided vehicles to capture data that automates alerts and instructions for workers on smart wristbands based on the movements of tagged vehicles and other assets, while enabling the use of a facility’s digital twin.