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...]
Are you ready for the coming UWB revolution?
You may not have noticed, but there’s a new chip that’s been quietly included in new mobile devices over the last year or so. And there are more devices that will have it, including ones for the smart home. It’s called an Ultra Wideband, or UWB, chip … [Read more...]
This startup wants to turn UWB radios into a service
If you read the top story (go on, I'll wait) then you're already well versed in the concept of using short-range wireless technology to determine location at centimeter or even millimeter accuracy. Currently, there is a lot of interest in the … [Read more...]
Ambient computing’s next big problem is intent
This week's most exciting tech news was probably the inclusion of a radar sensor in the latest Google phone. While Project Soli, which enables the phone to wake up when it detects someone's face or the fact that someone is reaching for it, may be … [Read more...]