The new product is part of the company’s effort to drive down the cost and complexity of RFID installations, which also includes the acquisition of IoT software company Dígame Systems, enabling software development to aid in that effort.
Smart devices, RFID and the Internet of Things are on the rise in retail, providing new and better ways to meet the needs of connected shoppers.
Several Internet of Things-based services may use the same infrastructure that currently serves merely to collect tolls.
Ubisense, Quuppa partner on industrial location-awareness solutions ••• RFID and NFC company Resource Label Group acquires wine-industry firm Paragon Label ••• FreeWave Technologies announces programmable app server network appliance for Industrial Internet of Things ••• Foundries.io launches platforms for secure IoT ••• Industrial Internet Consortium presents intelligent manufacturing solutions forum in Chicago ••• InnerSpace unveils indoor location intelligence platform for business operators ••• Canvass Analytics raises funding for artificial intelligence-based analytics for Industrial Internet of Things.
Entry App, a U.K.-based timing service for triathlons and other races, has deployed a system leveraging Portable Technology Solutions’ ClearStream middleware to capture automated data regarding the movements of race participants until they cross the finish line.
Marchi Engenharia has developed a reading module and antennas, which it plans to market under the brand Via Onda.
Cryptocurrency startup Unikeys is employing Near Field Communication and biometric technology in its payment card, so that users can safely make payments with tokens from services such as Bitcoin without exposing passwords or other data to the Internet.
The incredibly fast bandwidth advantages and high queue depths of Non-Volatile Memory Express SSDs enable faster and more efficient big data analysis.
A survey of RFID Journal’s readership found that Zebra Technologies, Impinj and Avery Dennison are the top three brands in the RFID industry, but awareness of what the leading companies sell remains low, particularly among end users.
The RFID postal modernization project, initiated in Brazil with the support of a specialized agency of the United Nations, foresees the mass use of RFID by 2020.