Industrial
FogHorn IoT Solution Monitors Worker Health and Safety
The system enables businesses to enforce workplace standards by using edge computing and artificial intelligence to monitor compliance.
IoT Offers Flexible Solutions for Post-Quarantine Worksites
GuardHat offers a mix-and-match solution for companies seeking social-distance-based proximity alerting, contact tracing and collision prevention, with mustering and access control among its Internet of Things features.
Green RFID Antenna Company Brings Capacity to One Billion
4e Antenna's Finnish production site will be able to produce a billion paper antennas for RFID tag companies, using a laser-cutting method and pure aluminum, thus eliminating chemical etching processes and waste, while the antenna makes tags recyclable.
Industrial Handheld Reader Offers Ease of Use, Long Life
Nordic ID has designed its HH85 UHF RFID reader to be lightweight, useable with gloves and able to withstand drops of up to 1.6 meters, with a battery life of at least two full-time work shifts.
Spatial-Awareness Technology Released for Hospitals, Factories and Logistics
A solution from Locix, employing high-bandwidth Wi-Fi technology, is in use by a Japanese facility owned by Prologis to help meet e-commerce demands as one of the applications the company sees being launched to meet post-COVID-19 challenges.
RFID News Roundup
Arrow Electronics, Panasonic Industry, STMicroelectronics offer IoT modules; NFC Forum adopts bi-directional communication between smartphones, IoT devices; ProGlove provides social-distancing sensors for factory floor; Laird Connectivity unveils wireless IoT gateways; Nedap intros BLE-NFC vehicle gate access solution.
Kinexon’s Ultra-wideband Technology to Provide Social Distancing
The SafeZone system is a modified version of its proximity-detection solution that will allow companies to provide workers with wristbands so they can adjust their behavior based on alerts if their close proximity to others poses a health risk.
IIoT System Monitors Rotating Equipment Health in Real Time
A wireless energy-harvesting solution offered by Everactive continuously streams and analyzes rotating machine data to increase uptime, equipment effectiveness and energy efficiency.
Unmanned Trucks Transport Ore at Chinese Mine
An IoT system being piloted by an Inner Mongolian open pit mine includes Beijing TAGE's Idriver solution, using software from Wind River, to manage sensor data, direct vehicles and forward information wirelessly to mine management.
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