New Identec Solutions tag combines RFID, GPS, satellite communications ••• Beaconinside launches second-gen beacon hardware and software ••• Thinfilm receives $350K through FlexTech Alliance to extend sensor platform ••• Global RFID market for retail to near $4 billion in 2019, Technavio finds ••• Schreiner LogiData unveils new NFC label for Android smartphones.
The medical and pharmaceutical products and services provider will be the cornerstone sponsor for RFID Journal’s 8th annual conference and exhibition for the health-care sector, to be held on Dec. 2-3.
The low-power, long-range IoT network covers the entire city, but applications that will leverage it have yet to be announced.
The company’s real-time locating system uses Bluetooth-beacon tags and receivers with integrated antennas to track personnel and assets, determining location within a few centimeters.
Costs are a major consideration, but from better engaging with your customers to improving regulatory compliance, IoT technologies offer a wide range of business benefits.
Using its proprietary heartbeat authentication system, Nymi is rolling out wristbands that serve as physical and logical access-control devices, and, in the future, may double as MasterCard payment cards.
No bigger than a grain of rice, the new XXS tags are tiny enough to be embedded in very small medical tools, and have a read range of 1.6 to 2 feet.
RFID4U will offer intensive, one-day RFID certification training at RFID Journal’s 11th annual European conference, to be held in London on Nov. 9-10.
Smart glasses and other devices could be a boon for productivity, but now is the best time to start investigating potential impacts from their long-term use.
A small retail store in The Netherlands is using passive UHF tags and readers to help shoppers find what they’re looking for—and have fun doing so.