Last month, Amazon was quietly granted a waiver by the FCC to use 60 GHz frequencies in devices to provide radar-like features in fixed devices. This follows a similar waiver for Google’s Project Soli in 2018 as well as several other approvals for … [Read more...]
RF sensing is big news, so here are the other options
I just spent a few hundred words explaining how Wi-Fi sensing would become the next big thing, but it's not the only sensing technology coming out that will take advantage of radio waves to determine where people and things are in space. Two other … [Read more...]
Apple AirTags review: Find My network and UWB make them top notch
Bluetooth trackers that attach to easily lost objects are nothing new. They’ve been around for at least eight years now. But technologies change and mature: Bluetooth is fine but Ultra WideBand (UWB) radios can deliver more precise location … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week, Nov. 13, 2020
From COVID to a panopticon: This article's author does an amazing job of weaving together various corporate activities aimed at adopting wearables for social distancing into a coherent look at what happens to people-tracking in the office after … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Oct. 9, 2020
Here's a privacy-centric way to track employees in buildings: Density is launching a product called Open Area that uses radar sensing to track people moving inside buildings. Density may be familiar to y'all as a company I've covered due to its … [Read more...]