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ISM radio bands have traditionally been reserved internationally for the use of RF for Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) purposes. In recent years, the fastest-growing uses of these bands have been for short-range, low-power, communications systems. Cordless phones, Bluetooth devices, NFC devices and wireless computer networks all now use ISM.

NXP Semiconductors has announced the addition of low power mesh compatibility to its Bluetooth Smart portfolio, recentlyacquired from Quintic’sBLE and wearable businesses. These capabilities will enhance the company’s Bluetooth offerings which are subset solutions from the company’s low power connectivity standards relevant to the IoT, including NFC, ZigBee and Bluetooth Smart.

NXP Semiconductors has announced the launch of the Smart NFC ZigBee remote control 2.0 reference design with Secure ZigBee encryption. It enables new sources of revenue to pay-TV, cable and telecomms operators, OEMs and ISPs which were previously unfeasible due to security limitations. Consumer benefits include instant media sharing, secure payments and a range of personalisation options.

Diageo and Thin Film Electronics will look tocompletely change the role of a bottle, with a prototype Johnnie Walker Blue Label ‘smart bottle’ that will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress, taking place 2ndto 5thMarch 2015.The connected ‘smart bottle’ aims to enhance the consumer experience, usingprinted sensor tags featuring Thinfilm’s OpenSense technology, which can detect both the sealed and opened state of each ...

NXP has announced that the Barcelona Metropolitan Transport Authority (Autoritat del Transport Metropolità - ATM) will use MIFARE DESFire for its mobility card, T-Mobilitat. Barcelona’s long-term ambition to become a self-sufficient, innovative city through progressive urban transformation is one-step closer with the T-Mobilitat card, which will provide over 5.7m inhabitants with easy public transport access.

A low power and long range wireless MCU has been released by NXP Semiconductors. Accompanying the JN5169 MCU are smart home and smart lighting solutions, featuring certified ZigBee LightLink, Home Automation, GreenPower software stacks and, the first in the market, an NFC-commissioning option that allows users to connect systems intuitively with just one tap. An on-chip +10dBm power amplifier within JN5169 doubles the connectivity range of NXP&rs...

Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced what it claims is the world's first SDHC memory card with built-in NFC and an improved version of the company’s popular FlashAir Wireless SD card. The NFC SDHC card allows users to preview card content and spare capacity with just the touch of a smartphone, while FlashAir III cards can serve as their own WLAN access point.

Keysight Technologies and FIME announced that the EMVco global technical body has qualified the latest version of the FIME Radio Frequency (RF) test bench based on Keysight’s T1141A test set. The test tool addresses the requirements included in the EMV Contactless Level 1 Specification for contactless and mobile payments.

Research from Juniper Research finds that over 1.5bn boarding passes will be delivered via mobile by 2019, compared to approximately 745m boarding passes estimated to be delivered this year. This means that mobile boarding passes will represent one in three boarding passes issued by airlines at the end of 2019.

RS Components is looking to make Near Field Communication (NFC) applications easier to design and more accessible by introducing the Panasonic NFC tag platform, which comprises a versatile set of NFC ICs and easy-to-use development tools. The NFC chips simplify tag design by integrating RF, signal-conditioning and host interface circuitry, as well as non-volatile 4Kbit FeRAM memory, in a compact surface-mount package.