Sensor networks are an emerging way to monitor inaccessible and unwired places. The units communicate with each other, and send the information they gather at intervals to the human operators. They’re used to monitor wildlife activity, for example.
But sensor network protocols, based on WiFi use too much power. The researchers experimented with Zigbee nodes [...]
HIMSS07, the premier Healthcare IT show, taking place this week in New Orleans, featured new WiFi-based tracking tags from AeroScout and and PanGo among other announcements.
AeroScout today announced the T3 Series, an advanced, feature-rich tag for asset and people tracking and real-time location solutions. It will build on AeroScout’s proven asset tracking with [...]
Bike Community.net reviews the options for geocoding your photos:
When riding my bike (or during skiing) I often take photos. Sometimes I also carry a small GPS-receiver. Afterwards I want to be able to link the photos to the geographic information and add coordinates to the pictures I was taking – in an easy way. This [...]
Savi Networks is working with a major maritime shipping operator to extend its auto-ID technology network to 31 marine terminals in the United States.
The initiative is part of a new partnership between Savi Networks — a unit of RFID hardware and software vendor Savi Technology (Sunnyvale, CA) — and Marine Terminals Corp. (Oakland, CA), a [...]
PanGo announced today a Wi-Fi-based active RFID tag to identify and track thousands of mobile assets at significantly lower cost.
Key new features of PanGo’s tag include an updated ergonomic form factor, battery life of over 5 years and integrated alert-button functionality.
Additionally, the new tag is the first to be compatible with the Cisco Certified Extensions [...]
Botanicalls allows thirsty plants to place phone calls for human help, notes textually.
Botanicalls, a project by students at NYU, opens a new channel of communication between plants and humans, in an effort to promote successful inter-species cohabitation and understanding.
When a plant’s microcontroller determines that the plant needs to make a phone call, it contacts [...]
The Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project seeks to install 10,000 RFID, infrared and wireless transmitters throughout Tokyo’s Ginza, one of the most famous shopping areas in the world.
The tags and transmitters will provide location-related information to people carrying prototype readers developed for the trial, said Ken Sakamura, a professor at The University of Tokyo and the [...]
A map of the world with RFID points of interest is available at the RFID Tribe website.
It uses a Google map, and pinpoints the locales of RFID associations, universities, end users and vendors. Being a Google Map, you can view it as a standard map or satellite view or as a combination of the [...]
Visa is pushing forward on its RFID-enabled cards through the Visa Contactless program (FAQ) in the United States and overseas, reports RFID Journal.
In November, the company released a global contactless-payments specification, which is designed to enable Visa Contactless cardholders from all parts of the world to use their cards at any merchant that [...]
In mid-December, Razor, a popular scooter manufacturer, plans to begin affixing EPC Gen 2 RFID tags to one model of its electric scooter bound for Wal-Mart, reports RF-ID Journal.
Razor, based in Cerritos, Calif., is implementing RFID technology to comply with Wal-Mart’s mandate, says Kevin MacDonald, vice president of client architecture at ODIN Technologies.
ODIN, an RFID [...]
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