A payment card featuring a fingerprint sensor has been unveiled by credit card provider Mastercard. The rollout follows two successful trials in South Africa. The technology works in the same way as it does with mobile phone payments: users must…
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SAYME and WISOL in IoT Advancement
SAYME – The Spanish device maker and solution provider and WISOL – the South-Korean module manufacturer have signed an agreement during the Sigfox Operator Days in Paris to become the biggest #IoT #LPWAN solutions manufacturer in the world. It is…
WSN Application to Networked Washrooms
A new Fraunhofer technology now monitors soap, cotton towel and toilet paper dispensers fully automatically, and notifies the cleaning staff when levels are running low in washrooms. The report says that at the core of the “CWS Washroom Information Service”…
Signal Fire Remote Monitoring System Offers Safer, Wireless Solution In Monitoring Levels of Acid in Rail Cars
A company known as SignalFire Wireless Telemetry that designs and manufactures wireless telemetry products with enable robust and long-distance wireless communication connecting multiple devices in challenging outdoor environments has released a press statement explaining how the Signal Fire Remote Sensing System offered…
Living sensors at your fingertips
Engineers and biologists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT have teamed up to design a new “living material” — a tough, stretchy, biocompatible sheet of hydrogel injected with live cells that are genetically programmed to light up in the presence…
Advanticsys introduces its first Industrial IoT gateway
A company that provides remote monitoring and control systems based on wireless sensor networks and industrial monitoring equipment with applications in areas such as processes control in industry, automated metering or environmental monitoring has released MPC-330 data concentrator. In a…
Micro-sensor measures fluid loss
A newly developed micro-sensor can detect dehydration, and can alert the user. In particular, this aid can be extremely useful in the care of the elderly. The new sensor is only 16 millimeters in diameter and 8 millimeters high, but…
Engineering Directed Creativity
Make it habit to purposely pause and notice things. Something outside your normal schedule. The problem with this is that many researchers tend to confine PhD and research students into areas that they themselves cannot research upon. The joy of…
Real-time Prototyping of 5G Software Defined Networks: Part 2
This white paper is Part Two of the National Instruments MAC/PHY prototyping platform series. The next generation wireless communication networks, or 5G, will need to evolve to overcome the limits of current systems by serving a number of novel use…
‘Internet of Sensors’
A Calif.-based Semiconductor manufacturer company known as InvenSense Inc. has announced introduced its SensorStudio alongside Samsung’s ARTIK 701 platform at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. According to Mark Wright, director of product management and platform and partnerships…