The P25 Solutions Centre will soon be able to demonstrate interoperability with encryption and there are plans to install data services before the end of the year, according to Airwave Solutions. [ + ]

Engineers at Telit find out whether GLONASS can be used with GPS to accurately locate vehicles or assets better than GPS-only units. [ + ]

Stanford electrical engineers overturn existing models to demonstrate the feasibility of a millimetre-sized, wirelessly powered cardiac device. The findings, say the researchers, could dramatically alter the scale of medical devices implanted in the human body. [ + ]

RadioComms Connect 2012 and the ARCIA gala dinner will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in December. [ + ]

A relay antenna was installed at Romnoes in Antarctica to improve the VHF communications between the PEA base and scientists out in the field. [ + ]

The trains on the Frankston line in Melbourne are now capable of warning cars when approaching to reduce accidents at crossings. [ + ]

RCC will move to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre for this year’s event. [ + ]

Data telemetry and logging is used to help Sydney Catchment Authority monitor NSW catchments and Warragamba River. [ + ]

Ian Miller, consultant for Orange Horizons and part of industry association, ARCIA, discussed the changes he has seen in the industry over the past 40 years. [ + ]

The association held its Annual General Meeting in August. ARCIA president Christian Kelly provides an update from the meeting. [ + ]

Peter Clemons from Quixoticity looks at the road ahead and considers some sombre forecasts. [ + ]

Just as male frogs call at different times to attract their suitor, researchers have devised an algorithm to assign colours to network nodes so pairs of connected nodes are not the same colour. [ + ]

A Little Spotted Kiwi population is being monitored using radio tags fitted with chick timer software. [ + ]

UK hospital uses RFID tagging to track expensive clinical equipment. [ + ]

Australian dishes will be used to record the difficult landing of the rover onto the red planet on 6 August. [ + ]