Energous Lands Retail Smart Tag Network Pilot in Sydney
Energous and retail technology company Flagship announced Monday that Energous' WattUp PowerBridges technology was deployed in a Bluetooth smart tag pilot at a “major retail store” in Sydney. Flagship’s technology automatically tracks movement of items in a store, fitting room…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
or warehouse, and gives instant inventory counts, loss prevention data, insights into what customers are trying on, stock replenishment requirements and merchandising insights, they said. It’s Energous’ first deployment of a wireless power network for RF-tags, said CEO Cesar Johnston, saying the Flagship technology is working with thousands of Wiliot IoT Pixel tags powered by WattUp PowerBridges. The Wiliot IoT devices are described as low-cost, active Bluetooth tags “that can be attached to nearly anything,” with sensors that monitor light, humidity, proximity and temperature, among other inputs.