Exploring the role of contactless beacons in a smart city
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAUSTIN, Texas–Smart city deployments come in many forms with one of the most simple methods of imbuing a physical object with connectivity and interactive access being a contactless beacon. Connecthings, …
BlueCats enables mobile operator’s connected city solution
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMobile network and LPWAN infrastructure operators expect to play a major role in tomorrow’s “smart cities,” and they are learning that their networks can be even more effective when paired …
Bluetooth 5 is here, and built for the internet of things
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Bluetooth Special Interest Group is going directly after the “internet of things” market with this week’s release of Bluetooth 5, the newest version of the now ubiquitous wireless technology …
Bastille releases IoT security solution to protect enterprises from attacks
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBastille, an enterprise IoT security company, announced the availability of its new service to protect internet of things enterprises from information and security threats. Bastille’s solution uses software-defined radio sensors backed …
Solutions to creating indoor positioning systems
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWhat are indoor positioning systems? Indoor positioning systems (IPS) are the indoor equivalent of what GPS offers outdoors: visibility. They are able to locate people and objects inside buildings, usually using …
What is Zigbee and where does it fit into the IoT?
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWhat is ZigBee? ZigBee is a low-power wireless local area network (WLAN) specification that was designed to provide small amounts of data using very little power, with most connected devices …
The role of Bluetooth in the Internet of Things
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAs low-power networks take off, what’s the place of Bluetooth? Invented by Ericsson in the early 1990s and initially standardized in 1999, most people associate Bluetooth with connectivity between a …
Cable and ‘Iot’: A bridge for wireless technologies?
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWith a myriad of wireless technologies being utilized for “Internet of Things” applications, there might be an opportunity for cable companies to serve as a hub or bridge for an IoT ecosystem, …
