Polk County Fire Rescue Saves $40,000 Monthly via RFID
The Florida agency is eliminating its station storage for medicines with an RFID system that tracks its inventory of narcotic and non-narcotic drugs on each rescue vehicle in real time.
UWB Enters Home With System That Tracks Pets, People and Things
Several health-care and elder-care facilities are testing Wiser’s Find-ly app and solution, and the company is demonstrating how the technology can track the movements of cats or a remote control in a household.
Trendspotting: Smarter Factories Integrate OT and IT
As the Industrial Internet of Things grows, next-generation technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and augmented reality can be highly useful in factories.
Energy Company Testing Passive RFID Sensor for Equipment
Once piloting is complete, the power company could opt to deploy Asygn’s passive UHF RFID chips across the energy-generating machinery it operates around the United States and Asia.
RFID News Roundup
Printronix Auto ID offers thermal and RFID printer; Wiliot raises funding for postage-stamp-sized IoT computer; IoT company Swift Sensors intros water-resistant PoE bridge; TAG Sensors opens factory in Norway; CalAmp launches smart sensors for tracking assets; Armstrong International, Everactive collaborate on IoT steam trap monitoring system.
Companies Testing Passive BLE Sensor Tag
Wiliot’s battery-free sensor tag can incorporate temperature or other sensors and send encrypted data using ambient radio waves from Wi-Fi, cellular and Bluetooth transmissions within the vicinity.
Contactless Payments Are on the Rise
Merchants are increasingly using physical cards for payments, as well as a growing number of smartphones equipped with either special chip readers or encoded images.
Get the Basics Right
CEOs want to invest in transformation technologies, but they need to get the basics fixed first.
Confidex Drives Tire Tracking With Small RFID Tag
The company’s TireTag is 67 percent smaller than standard RFID tags and offers a read range of up to 3 meters, enabling businesses to more easily build RFID into each tire in order to track its operation.
NFC Delivers Hemp Product Authentication, Information to Consumers
The Near Field Communication-enabled packaging that PearlCBD employs for its goods helps consumers confirm the authenticity of a lotion or capsule, as well as view its certification data, and learn about what cannabidiols are and how they are used.