Weir Oil & Gas upgrades its RFID-based service platform ••• Samsung SDS, Telensa partner on smart-city solutions ••• ERM Advanced Telematics, Altair Semiconductor team up on automotive IoT asset-tracking tech ••• Smart Cities for All, AT&T collaborate on smart-city playbook focused on disabilities ••• Frost & Sullivan recognizes Nordic ID’s RFID retail checkout systems ••• Polte, GeoTraq offer mobile IoT asset trackers.
Utility Composites’ SunDog tag can be stapled directly into a tree, plank, pallet, railroad tie or other wooden item, with a read range of 35 feet, and can be read through water.
One telecom company has acquired the Allot Ltd. system to secure its own customers’ IoT-based data, while others are in conversations to do the same.
Reactec is preparing the launch of a system to monitor the conditions and locations of employees, ensuring their safety and enabling them to summon help, via HF RFID labels on tools and ID badges from CoreRFID.
An RFID system to ensure the correct usage of security equipment in the electrical sector won the Best Poster award at this year’s IEEE conference, which was co-located with RFID Journal LIVE! 2019.
Delta Hotels by Marriott implements ASSA ABLOY RFID door locks ••• Schreiner PrinTrust provides RFID smart-parking solution to APCOA ••• Taoglas opens IoT design and support center in Minneapolis ••• VMware offers platform to facilitate IoT deployment ••• Pod Group provides secure IoT connectivity for Klevio’s smart door entry app ••• Impinj intros new RFID readers for E.U. upper frequency band.
MSM Solutions’ replenishment system is providing an automotive factory with UHF RFID-based data regarding the parts moving onto the assembly floor and empty racks returning from the floor, thereby ensuring the manufacturing system has just-in-time access to those parts.
Metalcraft’s Temperature Sensor Kit enables systems integrators or their customers to test UHF RFID-based temperature-sensing systems for specific use cases, without large investments in software or integration.
Retailers can apply Avery Dennison’s ShieldSense RFID Blocking Material to walls, barriers or other surfaces where stray RFID reads could occur, simply by peeling off the back and rolling it out.
Only time will tell which standards will be the most successful.