To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required A quartet of Japanese organisations plan to build “advanced ambient internet of things systems” using a newly approved ISO standard.

Want to know the temperature of machine parts before they overheat and cause damage? Monitor water-intolerant assets without opening the container to check each one? Detect strain in concrete? Save ...

Sensor-based passive RFID tags have been on the market for just a few years, but according to U.K.-based market-research firm IDTechEx, they have accomplished sufficient growth in niche markets that ...

“We wondered whether we could repurpose RFID tags to do battery-free sensing and tracking,” says Nagarjun Bhat, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering and lead author of a new study. Data is power.

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IDTechEx Research assesses that the entire RFID market will be worth $11.76 Billion in 2018, up a steady 5% from 2017. A small sub sector of that entire market, but one which will grow at a faster ...

In most applications, radio-frequency-identification (RFID) systems are used to store product and process data on, or retrieve it from, a special RFID tag using wireless technologies. Power to operate ...

Anyone exchanging information today – no matter whether privately, professionally, from person to person, man to machine or machine to machine – has long known the following: if the parties exchanging ...

Powercast Corporation, the leader in wireless power-over-distance technology for 14 years, announced the industry’s first RFID Sensor Tags which can include multiple sensors in a single tag, and ...

My recent note on extending Wi-Fi into the realm of PANs and even to sensors and RFID drew a bit of incredulity, as I actually expected. It’s always true that new technologies begin life by imitating ...

The RFID business is quintupling in value in the next ten years but the Active RFID business is growing about ten times. The trend in the number of suppliers of active RFID and trials, the trend in ...