‘Proximity Button’ Has a Beacon to Keep At-Risk Individuals From Straying
Startup Proximity Care is marketing a system that sounds an alert on a caregiver’s phone if a dementia patient or child is wandering off.
IoT News Roundup
Buddy platform opens doors to Parse users; LoJack announces new phone-based products; TomTom’s new device marries navigation with apps; Broadband Networks bringing People Power to Switzerland and Liechtenstein; OTA says security vulnerabilities easy to avoid.
IoT-focused LTE Products Begin to Emerge at CTIA Super Mobility 2016
Following standardization milestones this summer, a number of cellular industry stakeholders and suppliers have revealed their product roadmaps for Category NB1 and Category M1 cellular devices.
RFID News Roundup
Omni-ID releases extreme-temperature RFID tag ••• CSL licenses RFID patents from Round Rock Research ••• Schreiner ProTech intros high-temp-resistant RFID label for the auto industry ••• DHL SmartSensors track more than 100 million health-care, drug shipments ••• FleetCor completes acquisition of STP.
At U.S. Wireless Industry Event: A Vision for 5G Network
The opening keynotes at the CTIA Super Mobility conference, in Las Vegas, focused both on looking back at how far the wireless industry has come, and also on looking ahead to what the fifth-generation wireless network will require.
Cardiff Blues Rugby Team Welcomes Beacon Technology
GCell solar-powered beacons greet users of the Cardiff Blues Match Day app, and may enable wayfinding, deliver store discounts and provide other location-based services in the future.
Why Stadiums Should Be Early Adopters of Smart-City Tech
Major League Baseball is all about data, and the IoT offers a way for that number-crunching to extend to MLB stadiums as well.
The NFL RFID-Tags Its Footballs
The National Football League’s Competition Committee is reviewing the results of a preseason pilot of Zebra UWB RFID tags embedded in balls, as an extension of an existing system that tracks players’ movements during games.
Managing the IoT With Software-Defined Networking
The Internet of Things is taking off like a hummingbird on fire, and software-defined networking is the only hope we have of managing the massive influx of data the IoT is generating.
Solving Latin America’s Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma
In order to adopt RFID, companies in the region must spend money they don’t have. Yet, one of the surest ways to get funds to pay for such an investment is to deploy RFID.