IoT News Roundup
Sigfox and TI collaborating on low-power radio modules; Samsung and Mybitat partner on senior digital health offering; Bluetooth schooling for developers; McDonald’s customers drink up beacon offers in Turkey.
RFID News Roundup
Impinj intros new RFID chips, RFID reader system-in-package ••• FEIG Electronics debuts cVEND, a secure contactless payment and ticketing system ••• Invengo markets anti-counterfeiting RFID labels in the U.S. ••• Checkpoint Systems announces RFID upgrade kit for EAS applications ••• R-pac International acquires Truecount item-level tracking software ••• Bluetooth beacon platform provider Swirl closes $18M investment.
Upcoming Trial to Combine Ebola Care With Wireless Vitals Monitoring
Scripps Translational Science Institute plans to evaluate the use of wireless vital sign trackers and analytics software to predict declining health more quickly than by using conventional methods.
RFID Journal Announces LIVE! 2015 Highlights
Business professionals from leading companies in every sector and from around the world gathered at the RFID industry’s largest and most important event.
Market Researcher Uses Beacons to Study Shopper Behavior
Verve is testing a system utilizing Bluetooth beacons to track members of its research panel within a store, as well as send messages and questionnaires to them in a timely manner.
How Fujitsu Is Using the IoT to Grow Lettuce
Using a range of sensors and a cloud-based analytics program, Fujitsu partnered with Microsoft to tune up a hydroponic lettuce farm.
Market Researcher Uses Beacons to Study Shopper Behavior
Verve is testing a system utilizing Bluetooth beacons to track members of its research panel within a store, as well as send messages and questionnaires to them in a timely manner.
Summa Akron City Hospital Tracks EMS Stretchers, Reduces Wait Times
The Ohio hospital is employing RFID to learn how long it takes for patients arriving at its emergency department to be transferred from stretchers to beds, which has helped it to minimize delays.
NXP Releases IC for Secure Encrypted UHF Reads
The company’s Ucode DNA chip, which can be read via most standard UHF readers, transmits a dynamic, encrypted password that prevents a tag from being read without authorization, as well as precludes it from being cloned.
Outstanding Products Featured at LIVE! 2015
The exhibit hall was filled with some amazing new products, but Zebra’s MotionWorks, Phase IV Engineering’s strain sensor and Smartrac’s moisture sensor were standouts.