The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announces a direction finding feature with the potential to "significantly" enhance Bluetooth location services by allowing devices to determine the location of a Bluetooth signal.
Bluetooth location services fall in 2 categories-- proximity solutions and positioning systems. Proximity solutions use Bluetooth to understand when 2 devices are near each other, and how far apart. The category includes item finding solutions such as personal property tags, as well as point-of-interest (PoI) information solutions like proximity marketing beacons. The direction finding solution can allow proximity solutions to not only let a user know if if a personal property tag is in the area, but also the direction, enhancing the user experience.
As one might imagine, the Sonos headphones should meet the higher end of the market, with a $300+ pricetag. Bloomberg says the company is "focusing on audio quality and the ability to work with multiple music services and digital assistants," pointing out the possible addition of support for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, not to mention Siri.
The Smart Building Conference hosts a number of speakers, including senior executives from some of the highest profile smart building companies in the world. These range from architect practices to installers working on the "front line," consultancies and real estate companies. Google will present its vision of the Internet of Things, while AVIXA senior director for market intelligence Sean Wargo chairs a panel of experts providing an industry overview.
The battery-powered motorised system provides near-silent movement, optimum shading and easy, convenient operation at the touch of a button. It allows installers to easily retrofit a motorised Roman blind solution within a property, bringing new levels of convenience. The system is available with a maximum width of 3000mm x 2400mm drop, with maximum fabric weight of 5kg.
“Atlona has been at the forefront in developing cutting-edge AV technology that embraces the full potential of the convergence of AV and network infrastructure,” Panduit says. “Their industry-leading solutions complement Panduit’s extensive physical infrastructure portfolio, which will allow us to offer customers a quality end-to-end solution as they move to increasingly complex network infrastructure systems.”
Available in 55- and 65-inch versions, the GZ2000 is described as the first OLED TV to support both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision HDR, as well as the HLG Photo HDR still image format. Panasonic says the OLED panel is a combination of technological accuracy and the colour-tuning skills of Stefan Sonnenfield, one of the leaders in colour grading in Hollywood. Further pushing the TV is an HCX Pro Intelligent Processor able to handle the previously mentioned HDR metadata formats.
