RTLS tags
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Partner Spotlight – Texas Instruments
At the heart of AiRISTA’s RTLS BLE tags is a Texas Instrument microcontroller unit (MCU). The TI MCU provides transmit and receive functionality for protocols including Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) 5.2.
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Population milestone – earth’s population hits 8 billion
As the world’s population grows and events force migrations, real time location information will become a more important tool to help with the response and bring some stability to the ensuing chaos.
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AiRISTA Plans a Center of Excellence
Making location information available across the enterprise requires vendor/customer collaboration. The role of the AiRISTA COE is to work with each customer to derive the most benefit from the customer’s RTLS investment.
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When to use RTLS vs. RFID to track people and things?
Knowing when to use RTLS and RFID helps align costs with resulting benefits and can even complement each other.