STMicroelectronics is selling a low-cost plug-and-play Internet of Things device with built-in sensors and an app so that anyone with a smartphone can begin experimenting with IoT solutions in their home, business or place of recreation.
The system, provided by Sigfox and its local operator iWire, located four missing athletes during the course of the Abu Dhabi event—not only at the stadium but around the city—each time within less than 30 minutes.
A team from the University of Michigan and the University of Washington have completed their testing of a UHF RFID system that measures received signal strength and phase responses to reader interrogation, to identify not only what tag is in a room but whether it has moved or interacted with a person.
The event’s speakers discussed the obstacles facing the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, as well as the main initiatives to deal with these challenges, both with and without RFID.
The sled snaps into XT2 and XT2+ series mobile-computing devices so that users can have the flexibility of reading RFID tags, along with the existing functions of bar-code scanning, as well as HF RFID and NFC tag reads.
Here are some industry trends to watch out for, including IoT telemetry.
Many companies have failed to grasp just how transformational the technology is.
The military’s medical research lab has been applying RFID labels to biological samples for vaccine, drug and infectious disease management research, to ensure that the samples can be identified in freezers without being removed from cold storage.
Auburn University RFID Lab announces retail supply chain project ••• A2B Tracking launches mobile RFID asset-tracking app ••• Atos intros IoT edge-computing server ••• Longview IoT unveils new IoT protocol, extends its secure IoT solutions ••• Zscaler releases report on IoT traffic and threats ••• Event Genius services four cashless events simultaneously via RFID.
April marked two industry milestones: Global Internet of Things Day and the anniversary of Moore’s Law; both highlight the semiconductor industry’s ability to achieve things that previously could only be imagined.