TP-Link Brand Tapo Expands its Smart Home Portfolio of Devices

The Tapo RV30C Slim is a robot vacuum with innovative technology inside. The RV30C took home an award for innovation, using the MagSlim LIDAR Navigation technology. There is a small, space-saving Mini-dToF LIDAR sensor, offering a new slimmer form factor to clean those hard-to-reach places in the home. The MagSlim LIDAR navigations bring in millimeter measurements for more accurate perceptions along with increased mapping capability.

Three Leading Companies Partner to Unveil the First Smart Label

Three leading companies partner to unveil the first smart label. Pod Group, SODAQ, and Lufthansa Solutions create the first smart label tracking device ready for commercial use. They made the smart label debut at CES 2023.

Pod Group, the IoT and Network Enterprise Operator (ENO), the world’s first ENO, partnered with Lufthansa Industry Solutions, (LHIND), and SODAQ announced in early January the launch of a paper-think tracking device that forms a Smart Label.

Amazon’s Big Announcement is Matter Standard to Enhance Interoperability of Their IoT Devices

Amazon’s big announcement is Matter Standard to enhance the interoperability of their IoT devices. The announcement was made at the CES 2023 conference, just two weeks ago.

There were several products presented at CES 2023 by the retail giant. They covered a wide range of new and expanded software and hardware lines. There were several partnerships that were announced and Amazon focused on the Matter standard, as one of its top announcements.

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Why the Matter Standard Matters

Winding down from CES 2023, when everyone seems to be returning to the world from the pandemic, it is not a wonder that companies like Amazon are announcing the Matter standard really does matter.

In a unified system of interoperability, the Matter standard does a number of design and development bonding routines. Hundreds of companies are now on board with the standard, and it is finding its way into places such as Alexa and Siri.

But even more than that industrial applications are already ramping up to use this open source unifying collective of devices, that will make changing a smart light bulb simple again.

And simplification is the catchword of all things Matter. To make life simple for consumers, manufacturers, networks, and developers is what the standard is all about. It means a great deal to be able to buy from your favorite retailer or manufacturer because they all work with the same IoT software and devices.

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Dev Kit based on Renesas RZ/G2 SOM supports WiFi5, LTE, GPS and BLE

A few days ago, Beacon EmbeddedWorks presented a Dev-Kit and a System-on-Module (SoM) integrating the RZ/G2 Arm-Cortex multicore processors from Renesas. These embedded devices are equipped with a 3D Graphic Engine, a VPU Decoder/Encoder, up to 64GB of eMMC storage and many other peripherals.