Flashnet’s commitment to interoperability and open standards has proven successful. With projects in cities like Washington, D.C., Brussels or Riyadh, the company now manages over 1 million smart street lights across all continents. Flashnet was founded in 2005 with a…
UL Solutions opens new laboratory for testing connected products
UL Solutions recently announced the opening of its expanded Songshan Lake IoT Laboratory in Dongguan, China, emphasising the company’s commitment to supporting manufacturers in navigating the complexities of connected product and wireless device testing and market access. The new 36,000…
“Wireless power everywhere”: Eric Biel of Powercast talks to IoT Insider
For a company first established in 2003, the widespread adoption, development, and scale of wireless power has translated into rich opportunities for Powercast, which began with the aim of drawing on the energy harvesting technology in RFID tags and bringing…
NFC Digital Product Passport (NDPP) Candidate Specification
NFC Forum has published its NFC Digital Product Passport (NDPP) Candidate Specification. The new proposal enables NFC Forum tags already in use for other applications to also store sustainability data. The ability for this information to coexist with existing NFC…
Hexagon’s Nexus: the platform powering smarter manufacturing
Hexagon’s connectivity and collaboration platform, Nexus, is rapidly gaining traction throughout the manufacturing value chain, providing its customers with powerful new productivity-boosting digitalisation, AI, and open integration experiences with Hexagon and third party platforms and data. Since its launch in…
Energy harvesting tech from INFRGY uses benign RF to power devices
INFRGY has filed a second patent application for its extended range wireless energy harvesting system. This technology, which converts radio frequencies (RF) into usable electricity, is being developed together with the University of Kashmir’s Institute of Technology to achieve increased…
How item tagging delivers full value from medical assets
UHF RFID tagging can help to address medicine waste and more, writes Susanne Hazrati, Global Marketing Manager RAIN RFID Logistics, NXP Semiconductors Around one billion therapeutic drugs are prescribed or provided by physicians in the US each year. Another 360 million…
NTT demonstrates MIMO system to advance 6G tech in transport
NTT Corporation (NTT), NTT DOCOMO and NEC Corporation have announced their successful demonstration of a distributed Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology system that suppresses the degradation of communication quality in the 40GHz band when a large number of antennas are distributed…
Dryad Networks demonstrates autonomous drone solution for wildfires
Following the destruction of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires which were estimated to cost more than $250 billion, Dryad Networks announced a successful demonstration of the world’s first fully functional drone prototype solution to autonomously detect, locate, monitor and eventually…
Inertial Labs launches anti-jamming antenna system
Inertial Labs, a VIAVI Solutions company, recently launched its M-AJ-QUATRO anti-jamming antenna system. Equipped with advanced Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna (CRPA) and digital processing technologies, M-AJ-QUATRO establishes Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (A-PNT) in GPS/GNSS-challenged environments ranging from military operations…
