Qorvo (Greensboro, North Carolina), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions, and LEEDARSON, a renowned lighting and IoT solutions company, have partnered to create a family of smart home lighting products that operate concurrently with Zigbee 3.0 and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 protocols – offering compatibility with the most popular IoT standards. The first of these solutions is a new LEEDARSON smart light bulb and light switch that integrates Qorvo’s QPG6095 system-on-chip (SoC), a multi-protocol/multi-channel smart home communications controller for ultra-low-power wireless applications.
The Smartrac Technology Group (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), recently announced the appointment of Dr Kerstin Reden as chief financial officer, filling a vacancy in the leadership team of the RFID products and IoT solutions provider. Prior to her promotion, Kerstin Reden led Smartrac’s finance team with the rank of senior vice president.
EVRYTHNG (New York City, New York and London, UK), a leading internet of things data management platform for consumer products, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “technology pioneers.” The fusing of physical and digital is a primary force of the Fourth Industrial Revolution which is transforming the world around us. EVRYTHNG aims to be at the forefront of this revolution, creating a new real-time knowledge network with data collected from individual consumer product items, throughout each product’s life-cycle. Consumer product manufacturers around the world, including Coca Cola, Unilever, LVMH and Diageo, are using the EVRYTHNG platform to manage trusted information and apply real-time intelligence to hundreds of millions of products — protecting brand integrity in the supply chain with visibility and pre-emptive intelligence, and connecting directly with end-customers to build brand relationships.