IT/Infrastructure
Long-Range BLE Transmits at 20 Miles
Apptricity says its new Bluetooth Low Energy technology can provide location data for tracking individuals and things in wide spaces or very large buildings, without the high cost of installing numerous readers or using satellite or cellular devices.
RFID Journal Cancels LIVE! 2020, Announces Immersive Virtual Event
Amid growing concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has announced that this year's conference and exhibition will now be held online.
Utilities Test IoT for Water Heater Management
A wireless solution from Apricity allows companies like Portland General Electric to capture data from residential water heaters, and to remotely turn them on and off according to temperatures and peak demands, using narrowband IoT and Cellular LTE-M.
NXP, Microsoft Expand IoT Real-Time Operation System Partnership
The collaborative efforts will give NXP's developer community that use MCUXpresso software and tools access to the capabilities of Microsoft Azure RTOS across NXP's scalable edge-processing solutions.
ADLINK, Intel, Arrow Electronics Launch Industrial Machine-Vision AI Devkit
The Vizi-AI system is designed to provide a scalable starting point for IoT-based artificial-intelligence deployments at the edge.
Unipac Increases Inventory Accuracy to 98 Percent via RFID
The Jacto Group-owned company adopted an Internet of Things-based platform from CIAg, utilizing UHF RFID, QR code and BLE technologies.
Partnership to Bring Intelligence to Commercial Waste Bins
Ingram Micro is employing Nordsense technology to identify waste containers' fill levels using laser optical sensors, then is transmitting data via a cellular connection and using that information to provide waste collection management to collectors and cities, in order to improve collection routing and reduce energy consumption.
Mine Solution Tracks Worker Safety, Operations via Tags, Droids and Robots
Australian technology companies Rajant, Extronics, Poynting Antennas and Australian Droid + Robot have teamed up to offer an active RFID and mesh-network solution that enables real-time tracking of individuals, equipment and vehicles with a limited fixed infrastructure.
RFID Tracks One Million Health-Care Assets in United Arab Emirates
OgTech's UHF RFID solution enables the nation's Ministry of Health to manage the locations of its equipment, IT assets and mechanical gear throughout 147 facilities.
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