IoT Trends: What Will 2020 Bring?
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.
Opportunities for Label Converters
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.
Donaldson Provides IoT-Based Filter Management
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.
RFID News Roundup
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.
Smart Display Solution Finds a Match in RFID
Ynvisible has developed an interactive printed graphics display that employs RFID for power harvesting and could also be married to NFC, HF or UHF tags and sensors to provide visual displays in places where RFID reads are inconvenient or impossible.
German Mail Carrier Tracks Letters via RFID, GSM Trackers
During the past year, Postcon has expanded its passive RFID mail-tracking system, with active cellular and Wi-Fi-based Kizy trackers from Spectos to view the movements of sample letters in real time as they pass through sortation systems and hubs and are delivered to recipients.
SML Opens U.K. RFID Ideation Space
The company’s new Corby center brings UHF RFID technology closer to the United Kingdom’s retail market, which can use its simulated stores, warehouse and laboratory space for testing and designing RFID systems.
How to Implement an IIoT Platform in Your Manufacturing Plant
Devices utilizing the Industrial Internet of Things are changing the industry by providing plant managers with valuable, minute-to-minute data.
The United States Explores Food Traceability Options
The FDA’s “A New Era of Smarter Food Safety” initiative could result in RFID and other technologies being adopted to improve supply chain visibility and safety.
Japanese Hospitals, Stores Deploy RFID Smart Shelves
Teijin’s 2D communication sheets provide a real-time view into when products are stocked on shelves on which the sheets are mounted, and when they are removed.