The Silent Roar: Predicting the IoT in 2020
With the Internet of Things growing at an ever-fast rate, the coming year will afford many new opportunities to collect and process data at the edge.
With the Internet of Things growing at an ever-fast rate, the coming year will afford many new opportunities to collect and process data at the edge.
Sensormatic Solutions’ TrueVUE system now includes shrink management as part of its software-as-a-service stack, enabling retailers to begin identifying items that are removed from a store, and thereby ensuring inventory can be replaced.
RFID ticket provider FineLine Technologies acquires Consolidated Printing; Datamars launches integration software for self-deployed RFID laundry system; ViewTag chooses Powercast chipset for RFID-BLE bag tag; Telensa, LIGMAN provide smart street lighting, smart city sensing in APAC; Pulse Secure, Nozomi Networks team up for secure IIoT connectivity; IoT company KORE acquires Integron; IKEA joins Zigbee Alliance board of directors; Ergosense, Thingstream partner on IoT facility-management solution.
The company has improved its goods-circulation processes thanks to the use of radio frequency identification technology, offering it greater agility.
Agee Race Timing has teamed up with Sensthys to provide a solution for small- to mid-sized 5Ks or other races so they can temporarily set up UHF RFID-based timing systems, capture each participant’s results and then take the system down again with little technical background.
Sensize offers a cellular-based asset-management system using Arm’s connectivity and its own Internet of Things sensor and software to provide supermarkets with location data regarding crates used for home delivery in the United Kingdom, as well as companies moving goods in large plastic magnum boxes.
Product evangelist Lee Stacey explains what he considers the biggest trends for the Internet of Things in the coming year—including Industrial IoT, MQTT, blockchain and more.
The growth of RFID adoption in retail, apparel, baggage tracking, food and other industries is creating new business for label converters, and a new resource can help them grow their business.
The company’s iCue cellular-based system uses a Vodafone cellular network to manage data from wireless sensors attached to filtration equipment at factories across the globe, thereby ensuring the equipment works properly and preventing manufacturing shutdowns.
Smartrac offers RFID transponders for industrial and animal ID applications; STMicroelectronics intros small-form-factor development boards; CAP-XX acquires Murata’s supercapacitor production lines; LORIOT unveils new LoRaWAN professional network servers; Semtech, Wilhelmsen, The Things Industries partner on LoRa-based IoT connectivity solutions.