FEIG Electronic releases new firmware to support NXP products ••• RFID4U intros new asset-tracking module ••• European Molecular Biology Lab uses HID Global RFID system to track cryogenic research equipment ••• Sonitor Technologies spins out Forkbeard as subsidiary, establishes new corporate structure ••• Darwin selects Telensa for smart street-lighting project ••• ProGlove unveils ergonomic IoT BLE wearable ••• AIM North America honors Professional of the Year.
SensThys is releasing five new reader devices designed to be networked together, with up to 90 watts of Power-over-Ethernet, that can be used to cover up to 100 read points with a single gateway and a PoE connection.
The partnership is aimed at helping pharmaceutical companies easily create a system to deploy RFID tags that are built into their medication labels, thereby enabling the tracking of each product from the point of manufacture until after it arrives at a hospital.
Every time I host an RFID Journal LIVE! event, I learn a few things about the technology that I didn’t know.
Industrial companies are conducting qualification testing of Primo1D’s passive UHF E-Thread technology, with integrated RFID-enabled threads, including electric cables, ropes, bale twine and tires.
Barriers to the adoption of radio frequency identification technologies are disappearing.
Permasteelisa North America is tracking its glass and steel panels as they are installed in new city buildings, while enabling a history of each panel, along with its warranty and maintenance records, so they can be easily accessed using a handheld reader.
JADAK unveils plug-and-play RFID reader ••• Tanzania selects HID Global trusted-identity solutions for e-immigration program ••• Smartrac RFID products comply with Buy American Act ••• Berntsen International receives U.S. patent for UHF RFID utilities solution ••• GlobalPlatform, Trusted Platform Association collaborate on IoT ecosystem ••• L-SPARK, TELUS, BlackBerry, Solace launch Canadian IoT accelerator ••• FogHorn intros IoT edge-computing solution for mobile devices.
Impinj calls its new integrated circuit process its most significant innovation since the release of its Monza chip in 2005; the new IC will enable a smaller, faster and more effective series of RFID chips that could fuel major advancement in the UHF RAIN RFID industry.
Comba Telecom’s CriticalPoint Antenna Monitoring System leverages RFID to ensure antennas can provide voice communications for public-safety systems used by first-responders.