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DeHealth claims to offer world’s first healthcare metaverse

Altrincham, England. 22 Dec 2021 – A British non-profit organisation, DeHealth, has announced the start of the creation of a Decentralised Metaverse, which will take millions of doctors and patients to a new world where they can work, interact with each other in full 3D format and earn virtual assets by selling their anonymised medical data. (more…)

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December 24, 2021

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Minew throws its hat in the UWB tracking tag game with a leak of the new smart tag

Minew steps in Ultra-Wideband technology with its own UWB tag for a smarter way to find lost or misplaced items. The design and image have leaked, showing its performance to help people find their keys and wallets with a precise and real-time location guide.

The technology has been around for years, but only recently has UWB started gaining popularity as it promises greater accuracy than Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for determining the location and movement of other devices. Apple and other phone makers have included UWB chips in their phones, for the purpose of attaining compatible products.

Upholding the innovative notion, for offering customers a more precise positioning experience with accuracy up to centimeters, Minew will lead you all into some unknown of the coming Minew UWB Tag and UWB technology.

Smart tag with UWB support

What is UWB technology? Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) Technology is an ultra-low-power, short-range wireless technology that can be used to transmit data and capture accurate location and directional information. It operates over a wide frequency range from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz and has channel bandwidths over 500 MHz. The wide bandwidth also allows it to have a low power spectral density which minimizes interference with other technologies operating in the same frequency band. A location beacon essentially, a UWB (ultra-wideband) tag uses the radio technology that only needs a low energy level for short-range, high-bandwidth communications over a large portion of the radio spectrum. The UWB system is highly scalable and can cover a large area to track hundreds of objects on the assembly line at the same time. Moreover, there is a majority of application scenarios beyond your imagination, indoor navigation, warehouse positioning, assets tracking, smart retail, etc. You may find it sounds familiar with the Bluetooth beacon, let me show you a brief difference under comparing between these 2 common positioning technology.

UWB vs. Bluetooth

Bluetooth LE (BLE) is a low-power radio system that has been used in beacons for ranging and measuring location. BLE technology has the advantages of not being expensive and being easy to implement. In comparison, UWB measures are not based on the signal strength, but the time it takes the signal to travel from the object to the UWB tag.

Currently, BLE beacons may be the first choice to many suppliers or manufacturers, which predated UWB and are easily available to integrate with existing systems. Simply deployment of the BLE has become a firm and tight advantage rooting in people’s minds.

What makes ultra-wideband so well and unique?

High-speed data transmission

UWB exchanges a wide frequency bandwidth for high-speed data transmission, and does not occupy the crowded frequency resources, but shares frequency bands used by other wireless technologies. In military applications, it can be used to achieve long-distance, low interception rate, low detection rate, high security, and high-speed data transmission.

Low power consumption

UWB systems use intermittent pulses to send data, and the pulse duration is very short. UWB devices have great advantages over traditional wireless devices in terms of battery life and electromagnetic radiation.

Precise positioning

Ultra-wideband radios have strong penetrating capabilities and can perform precise positioning indoors and underground. Unlike GPS, which provides absolute geographic locations, ultra-short pulse locators can provide relative positions with positioning accuracy up to centimeters.

UWB Market outlook and top end-user industries

From the available and forecast data of the UWB Market and Application Trend from Techno Systems Research Co, Ltd, it’s clearly shown that the forecast to the units of the global UWB market reaches more than 200 million in 2021, and more than 1.2 billion units shipped by 2027. In the application trend, the smartphone segment has always been the biggest part, far above automotive, smart home devices, wearables, consumer tag, and RTLS B2B.

 

Healthcare − UWB is used to track and monitor hospital assets, patients, healthcare professionals, and the health status in the hospital. Greatly improve the efficiency of the work process and bring an excellent experience.

Retail – Greatly assists in finding information about the location of products and employees in the store, and achieves the ability to identify customers, employees, and goods. Ensure speed and process efficiency.

Manufacturing – The manufacturing vertical brings the huge market potential to UWB-based RTLS solutions. UWB-based RTLS solutions can also track and monitor telemetry conditions, such as humidity, pressure, and temperature of remote assets and ships, thereby improving worker safety and helping manage asset integrity.

Automobiles and transportation – In recent years, wireless technology has been mainly used in automobiles for radio reception and navigation purposes. The UWB solution is used to ensure high reliability in the heterogeneous environment inside the car.

Consumer Electronics – UWB will be the fastest growing technology and is expected to significantly improve the consumer experience related to home entertainment products. UWB meets the low-power requirements of electronic devices and provides low-cost solutions for widespread consumer adoption.

Moreover, the UWB Tag can be widely used in smart office, assets tracking, and more to explore. It greatly ensures security and contributes to the development of life and business.

What can we expect?

As an extremely mature Bluetooth positioning supplier, Minew has full confidence in exploring the new area and creating more practical UWB products with an accuracy of up to centimeters. In the future, you all can totally expect UWB to appear in a wide range of devices, and it will be the time that Minew is shining in the UWB arena.

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December 23, 2021

Posted by: Shenzhen Minew Technologies Co.,Ltd.

Westcon-Comstor signs new agreement to distribute Nokia industrial grade private wireless solutions

London, UK. 21 December 2021 – Westcon-Comstor, the global technology distributor, announced it has signed a new distribution agreement with Nokia, which sees Westcon-Comstor bringing the Nokia industry grade private wireless solution Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) to the German market. (more…)

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December 21, 2021

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Log4j vulnerability: identifying and minimising production risk

Log4Shell, a zero-day vulnerability affecting the popular Apache package was made public on December 9, 2021. The National Vulnerability Database describes the vulnerability here. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Oceanscan navigates ransomware event with iland secure DRaaS

London. 9 Dec 2021 – iland, a VMware-based provider for application hosting, data protection and disaster recovery services delivered on the iland Secure Cloud Platform,  announced that Oceanscan is using iland Secure DRaaS to keep its business up and running in the wake of a recent ransomware attack. (more…)

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December 15, 2021

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Zscaler extends its proven zero trust exchange platform to deliver zero trust for workloads

London, 8 December 2021 Zscaler, Inc., a specialist in cloud security, has announced the general availability of its new Workload Communications solution, part of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, which extends Zero Trust security to workloads and applications hosted in public clouds. Zscaler’s cloud-native platform eliminates attack surfaces, prevents lateral threat movement, inhibits compromise of workloads, and stops data loss. It also helps IT teams simplify multi-cloud workload connectivity by moving away from traditional IP-based routing and VPNs between cloud environments to expedite enterprises’ cloud transformation initiatives. (more…)

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December 8, 2021

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Renesas introduces RA6T2 MCUs for next-generation motor control in inverter appliances

Dusseldorf, 8 December 2021 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced the RA6T2 Group MCUs featuring a rich set of peripheral functions and hardware accelerator designed specifically for motor control. The new RA6T2 Group MCUs deliver an unmatched combination of performance, features, and cost-efficiency for motor control designs in home appliances, smart home, industrial and building automation, as well as inverter co ntrol. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

New Aruba EdgeConnect microbranch solution modernises the home/small office experience

San Jose, Calif. 7 Dec 2021 – Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company introduced its new EdgeConnect Microbranch solution, an home office and small office networking solution for hybrid work environments that securely provides remote personnel all of the traditional services workers receive in-office via a single Wi-Fi access point (AP) with no gateway, agent or additional hardware required at the remote site. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

HomeGrid Forum announces 5 task forces to drive G.hn innovation and deployments

Oregon, USA. 6th December 2021 – HomeGrid Forum announced a new organisational structure that includes five Task Forces designed to support specific use cases and accelerate the deployments of network topologies. The Task Forces are customised for Home Networking, GiGAWire/Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU)/Single Family Unit (SFU), LiFi, Smart Grid and Industrial IoT scenarios. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

OCF celebrates pulse systems’ installation of newly certified IoT platform for smart lighting

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) has announced the first installation of the recently-certified low power IoT platform, from OCF member Cascoda, that combines the end-to-end security benefits of OCF and the low power, wide-area coverage advantages of Thread. (more…)

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December 6, 2021

Posted by: Anasia D'mello