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.
U.S. Malls, Hospitals Use Senion’s Beacon-based Solution
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.
Allrecipes Uses Beacons to Spice Up App
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.
Sensors Cross the Industrial-Consumer Divide
New, more capable and affordable sensors are being used in both industrial and consumer Internet of Things applications.
Venture Research Adds More Intelligence to Its Surface Reader
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.
Internet of Customers: Customer Experience Automation Meets IoT?
The Internet of Things creates many new types of customer touchpoints and communication channels, which can fundamentally change how you manage the customer relationship.
McDonald’s, Other Companies Test TAG Sensors’ RFID Temperature Loggers
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.
IoT News Roundup
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.
Inventor-e Launches Hybrid Auto-ID Solutions
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.
A Wearable That Listens for Troubling Coughs
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.