Infineon is showing off a new chip designed to provide lock/unlock abilities to a lock without requiring a battery. The key to the tech is near-field communication, or NFC, which can transmit small bits of power along with the credentials that unlock … [Read more...]
Want a connected home without a cloud? Get smarter sensors.
If we want to build a world that doesn't require an internet connection but can still make use of ubiquitous sensors, as Alasdair argues above, then we need smarter sensors. For an idea of what that might look like, I consulted with Pete Warden, an … [Read more...]
Did the IoT doom connected devices in the home?
This article is written by Alasdair Allan While the modern internet of things era is probably no more than a decade or so old, connecting things to the Internet isn’t a new idea. As early as 1982, there was a Coke machine connected to the … [Read more...]
UnaBiz has a nice plan for Sigfox
Bonjour! This week I am in Paris at the LoRaWAN World Expo, where the LoRa Alliance invited me to give a talk about open infrastructure. One of my goals while I'm here this week was to find out what UnaBiz, the company that purchased Sigfox's … [Read more...]
Wi-Fi gets ready for an industrial makeover with new features
This week, the Wireless Broadband Alliance issued a report detailing how to make Wi-Fi better for use in the industrial IoT. The report focuses on bringing the characteristics of Time Sensitive Networking to wireless networks using Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi … [Read more...]
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