Beacons, App Help Patients, Employees Navigate Huge Clinic
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center has launched an app that leverages data from beacons to guide patients and personnel around a 3-million-square-foot building.
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center has launched an app that leverages data from beacons to guide patients and personnel around a 3-million-square-foot building.
A California hospital and a mall have installed the Swedish company’s StepInside technology to track and analyze traffic patterns at their facilities; the software also enables them to share location-based content with app users.
Footmarks’ beacon platform, installed at Marc’s stores in Ohio, provides Dinner Spinner app users with recipes tailored to their location, weather and current product sales.
New, more capable and affordable sensors are being used in both industrial and consumer Internet of Things applications.
The latest version can identify not only EPC Gen 2 RFID tags, but also Bluetooth beacons, enabling companies to track tools and other assets in real time.
The Internet of Things creates many new types of customer touchpoints and communication channels, which can fundamentally change how you manage the customer relationship.
The data logger—in the form of a passive RFID inlay and a battery-powered sensor embedded in an adhesive label—is designed to provide a low-cost method of tracking products’ environmental conditions throughout the supply chain.
LoRa network coming to Gothenburg, Semtech adding geolocation; PARC announces machine health monitoring platform; Ayla Network lands $39 million, growing Chinese presence; STMicroelectronics releasing Bluetooth system-on-chip; Cisco announces LPWAN module for its industrial routers.
The U.K. company is offering its Smartie tags and iSite readers, along with apps and software to manage deployments that can combine Bluetooth beacons with EPC and NFC passive RFID tags.
CoughAware has been designed to help caregivers of children or elderly patients to respond quickly to impeding asthma or COPD respiratory attacks, and possibly avoid the need for hospitalization.