Japanese IoT company, Nature, has made available in Australia a product, Remo 3, that enables any device operated via an infrared remote controller to be controlled through a smartphone app. The product, Nature Remo 3, comprises the app and a wall-mounted device with inbuilt sensors that communicates to the phone via Bluetooth low energy and […]
Leash It offers Covid-19 contact tracing for the workplace
Australian company Leash It, which provides Bluetooth-based tracking technology for assets and individuals, has evolved its technology to provide contact tracing of workers in places such as construction sites, hospitals and factories. Leash It founder and CEO, Tony Lotzof told IoTAustralia that the technology could avoid a workplace being shut down as the result of […]
Bluetooth by the billions, driven by IoT
ABI Research is tipping a key role for Bluetooth in providing connectivity for IoT, at the expense of other technologies such as Thread, ZigBee, and Z-Wave. ABI Research says shipments of Bluetooth devices will increase by an average of half a billion per year to reach in excess of five billion annually by 2021. ABI […]
Bluetooth Internet Gateway leads to IoT
The Bluetooth short-range wireless technology is set to play a much bigger role in IoT with release by the Bluetooth SIG of new architecture that enables Bluetooth Internet gateway functionality to be incorporated into a router. This will mean that Bluetooth enabled devices, for example a light bulb, will be able to send information directly […]
Capillary networks for IoT, where ZigBee, bluetooth, etc meet cellular
Today’s mobile networks support a wide range of machine to machine (M2M) applications but are ill-suited to many emerging IoT applications that require low bandwidth communication with static devices that are expected to operate for a decade or more on a AA battery. The cellular industry is evolving LTE to better meet the requirements of […]
