Avery Dennison acquires Smartrac RFID business, intros RFID blocking material; Confidex unveils RFID labels for high-volume logistics; Semtech creates LoRaWAN IoT network with Helium, offers new LoRa IoT solutions; Zebra Technologies partners with Portable Technology Solutions; Insight SiP releases RF module combining UWB, BLE.
The IoT has come a long way in the past two decades—as has RFID Journal’s coverage of the technologies it encompasses.
The products will be presented at RFID Journal LIVE! 2020, to be held in Orlando, Fla., in April.
RFID and QR codes are among the technologies supporting a two-year project known as the NextGen Cup Challenge.
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.
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.
As the Industrial Internet of Things grows, next-generation technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and augmented reality can be highly useful in factories.
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.
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.
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.