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.
RFID Simulations for Faster, Smarter and Cost-Effective IoT
Internet of Things sensors and RFID tags offer accurate and valuable insights using real-time data analytics.
Avery Dennison Announces RFID Factory in Brazil
The company predicts that the market for radio frequency identification tags will grow by more than 20 percent per year in that country.
RFID News Roundup
Fujitsu Frontech North America intros washable RFID linen tag; Tatwah offers ultra-low-power Bluetooth 5 beacons; ACD Group unveils terminal that can accommodate RFID readers; Tuya Smart announces NB-IoT module for smart cities, health care, agriculture; STMicroelectronics microcontrollers add security for IoT applications.
NFC Headlines at Afro Nation Festival
A cashless-payment solution known as Event Genius was offered at last year’s global festival in Ghana and is now planned for use at Afro Nation Portugal, with the goal of reducing queues, increasing purchasing and decreasing theft.
Unlocking the Potential of Wi-Fi: An Always-On Public-Safety Platform
The ubiquity of Wi-Fi networks and the prevalence of consumer smart devices make Wi-Fi an ideal underlying backbone to provide immediate scale to nearly all buildings.