Ambiq Harvest Kit Captures Sensor Data Without Batteries
The soon-to-be released reference design from Ambiq includes sensor technology from Bosch Sensortec to track gas, humidity, pressure and temperature. With PV energy capture, the devices make wireless sensors easier to deploy and data available via BLE or...
IoT Sniffs for Smoke to Prevent Wildfires
Dryad’s fire detection system now leverages HF RFID chips to enable shippers to set the LoRa frequency on the device according to where the device is used. The sensors are now in place across North America, Europe, Asia and South America to detect smoke before...
RFID Helps Laundry Serve London’s Five Star Hotels
The HID Global Acuity solution enables Royal Jersey Laundry to better manage the thousands of fine linens that must be segregated, cleaned, pressed and returned to area hotels. With RFID readers at the laundry itself and in some hotels; the full supply chain of...
Fast Growing Tageos Opens U.S. RFID Production
The new production facility is located in Fletcher, N.C. By the end of 2024, the facility will have the capability to produce more than four billion units per year Set in an industrial park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Tageos’ newly opened RFID plant...
Auto-Checkout: Reacting to Amazon’s Retreat from Just Walk Out
Amazon recently announced that they were scaling back their camera based checkout-free system in their Amazon Fresh and Go stores. The media had a field day with this news after discovering that Amazon were employing thousands of people in India to manually verify...
NFC Forum Adds New Capabilities to Certification Program
New capabilities have been added to the certification program to simplify the testing of NFC end-products. A streamlining of testing requirements was done to evaluate how the device will behave depending on the intended use of the product The NFC Forum recently...
MasterCard Settles NFC Lawsuit with Payvox
Details of the agreement were not disclosed MasterCard was one of eight companies sued by Payvox Payvox has reached an agreement in one of their lawsuits over patent infringement related to their use of NFC technology. According to a filing on May 10, “the...
Microsoft, RFID Discovery, Grydd, SparkFun: RFID News Roundup
New RFID technology Being Used by Brook Taverner RFID Discovery has implemented its conveyor belt portal solution at Brook Taverner, enabling the company to check up to 25,000 garments in less than 60 minutes. Using RFID tags fitted into garments during manufacture,...