Smart Home
Infrared Wireless Charging Offers Long-Range Power
A solution from Wi-Charge includes an AirCord transmitter, along with receivers that capture targeted beams of energy for powering everything from phones to electronic shelf labels and displays.
Semtech LoRa ICs Support Amazon Sidewalk Development
With long-range connectivity for trackers and sensors, new products are expected to enable new applications outdoors, beyond the four walls of a home or business.
RFID News Roundup
STMicroelectronics designs MEMS pressure sensor for IIoT; Energous IoT power transmitter doubles energizing capability; KP Performance offers IoT multiband combination antennas; Estone Technology releases embedded board for IoT; PerfTech intros wired smart-home router; Kinexon, SAP partner on IIoT solutions; XO2Tech unveils RFID-ready AI healthcare-monitoring solution.
Aircraft Companies Among Early Adopters of Battery-Free RTLS
Since Paragon ID acquired UWINLOC, the companies have been marketing its MahVis solution that harvests ambient RF energy, then wirelessly transmits sensor data and a precise location.
Samsung’s New UWB Chip Designed for Cars, Phones
The Exynos Connect U100 is being built into products to connect them with objects or people in their environment, and to identify location and direction of movement.
Small, Low-Energy SoC Released for IoT Devices
A wearable in-mouth sensor is among the early products being built to leverage Silicon Labs' new system-on-chip family, which can capture and transmit data via Bluetooth and Zigbee.
MIT Team Brings RFID Reading to AR Headsets
The X-AR project finds that those wearing the glasses could locate RFID-tagged goods within centimeters and be alerted if an item they pick up is the wrong one.
IoT Presses a Button with Soracom-UnaBiz Solution
The companies' single-button device is a simple way to offer low-cost Internet of Things functionality for homes, hospitals and factories that operates without software integration, cables, a dedicated server or a wireless network.
RFID News Roundup
NXP adds NFC to secure element for Matter devices; STAR Systems receives patent for antenna design; TSC Printronix print engine offers RFID encoding; Sierra Wireless unveils IoT module with Sony chipset; Renesas, AMD collaborate on RF front-end solution; ScaleOut Software adds simulation to digital twin service; Industry IoT Consortium publishes new white paper; KnarrTek white papers discuss ERP, RFID data capture.