RAIN Alliance publishes framework for tag manufacturing quality

RAIN Alliance has announced the publication of its RAIN Manufacturing Quality Guideline. This document addresses the pressing need for an open, transparent, and scalable framework for RAIN tag quality assurance and validation, providing an essential building block for manufacturers to…

Z-Wave Protocol Certification achieved by Silicon Labs and Trident IoT

The Z-Wave Alliance announces that Silicon Labs and Trident IoT have both achieved the Alliance’s newly established Z-Wave Protocol Certification. As the silicon solutions providers currently supporting the Z-Wave ecosystem, this certification ensures that all products developed on their platforms…

NFC Forum announces NFC Release 15

NFC Forum, the global standards body for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, has announced NFC Release 15, supporting the latest advancements in NFC Forum-certified technologies. NFC Release 15 will extend the range of certified compliant NFC contactless connections up to…

Nordic Semiconductor announces acquisition of Neuton.AI

Nordic Semiconductor announced its acquisition of the intellectual property and core technology assets of Neuton.AI, a pioneer in fully automated TinyML solutions for Edge devices. This ignites a new era of ML on the Edge by combining Nordic’s nRF54 Series ultra-low…

How IO-Link masters balance Cloud connectivity and local control

By Rolf Horn, Applications Engineer, DigiKey Balancing the needs for Cloud connectivity and local control using programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in industrial networks just got easier. Industry 4.0 networks are complex and include multiple levels of connectivity from IO-Link on…

Growth of private 5G adoption

By Cristopher Maldonado, Business Line Manager at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) The growth of Private 5G adoption, predominantly in industrial and manufacturing environments, can be attributed to its ability to function as a “dedicated wireless network”, Cristopher Maldonado, Business Line Manager…

DigiCert and Panasonic simplify Matter smart home device certification

DigiCert has partnered with Panasonic Industry Europe to integrate DigiCert Device Trust Manager with Panasonic’s PAN-MaX intelligent manufacturing service for seamless Matter certification of interoperable smart home devices. The integration provides manufacturers with a faster, more efficient process for delivering…

RAN stabilises in Q1 2025 after two years of decline

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, a trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data centre industries, preliminary findings reveal that after two years of steep declines, market conditions improved in the quarter.…

Kerlink honoured by LoRa Alliance for decades of service

Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), received two LoRa Alliance awards at the IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. Presented by the LoRa Alliance, which Kerlink co-founded in 2015, the awards included: Each year,…

Authenticating wine using specialised IoT and Blockchain technology

Identiv introduces a new NFC-based anti-counterfeiting smart packaging solution for luxury wine producers and collectors in collaboration with ZATAP and Genuine-Analytics. With global wine fraud estimated to impact as much as 20% of bottles in circulation, the partnership between Identiv,…