Industry News
Australia widens scope for satellite monitoring
Australia will have access to a new source of Earth-observing satellite information from India’s remote sensing satellite, Resourcesat-1.
[ + ]Breakthrough in organic RFID
The Holst Centre presented a plastic 64-bit inductively coupled passive RFID tag operating at 13.56 MHz at the International Solid State Circuit Conference.
[ + ]Contract to supply advanced manufacturing test solutions
Aeroflex has entered into a multi-year contract to supply advanced manufacturing test solutions worth in excess of $10 million with a supplier of mobile phones and communications devices.
[ + ]‘Real-world’ WiMAX in regional Australia
Internode has started connecting users to its high-speed national network, claiming to be the first Australian broadband company to deliver a region-wide, wireless broadband service using WiMAX.
[ + ]Spectrum analyser contract awarded by NFL
Anritsu Company has been awarded a contract by the National Football League (NFL) to supply the league with 36 MS2721B Spectrum Master handheld spectrum analysers.
[ + ]Solar energy to power RFID-based asset tracking systems
Savi Technology has begun deploying solar-powered RFID readers and signposts, enabling users in the defence and commercial sectors to conserve energy and reduce costs while tracking supplies in real time.
[ + ]Transceiver chosen for major government order
The Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA) of Western Australia has chosen the Vertex Standard VX829 handheld transceiver as its front-line radio for the WAERN (Western Australia Emergency Radio Network) Project.
[ + ]Wireless on the waves
Many of the yachts in the 2007 Sydney to Hobart race used new fixed wireless terminals to track competitors and obtain weather updates as they fought their way to the finish line.
[ + ]Start-up company launched
Tait Electronics Limited has spun off part of its group research division working in the field of high spectral efficiency radio as a separate company within the Tait Group.
[ + ]Management changes announced
The board of directors at Daniels Electronics Ltd, a supplier of Land Mobile Radio (LMR) radio equipment, has announced the promotion of Gerry Wight to the position of vice-president of sales and marketing and the promotion of Douglas Bigrigg to Canadian national sales representative effective immediately.
[ + ]WiMAX Forum to launch certification lab in India
The WiMAX Forum has announced plans to create an official certification laboratory in India by 2008.
[ + ]RFID and asset tags combine to control remote packages
Siemens and Free2move have deployed the Siemens Wireless Asset Tracking (SWAT) at Siemens' Malaysian headquarters in Petaling Jaya.
[ + ]Fighting obesity with wireless networking
Nordic Semiconductor ASA has announced that US wireless health monitoring company FitSense has standardised on its nRF2401A 2.4GHz transceivers in its wearable, coin-cell sensor powered ActiHealth BodyLAN system.
[ + ]Integrated receiver for high-frequency applications
Researchers at Chalmers University in Sweden have succeeded in combining a receiver for high frequencies with an antenna on a small chip.
[ + ]Aussie radio comes to the rescue of miners
The 27 miners rescued from the Ballarat mine collapse used an Australian designed and manufactured radio system to immediately contact the surface to report their condition and exact positions. This led to their quick recovery, through a nearby ventilation shaft.
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