Identiv announces strategic partnership with InPlay

Identiv (INVE) announced a strategic partnership with InPlay, a provider of wireless System-on-Chip, or SoC, solutions. The collaboration will focus on delivering Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE-enabled tags and IoT solutions by combining Identiv’s BLE tag engineering and design expertise with InPlay’s NanoBeacon technology. The partnership is set to produce BLE-enabled IoT solutions tailored to industrial use cases, such as cold-chain temperature compliance for food and logistics providers, and other high-value use cases such as asset tracking and patient tracking within healthcare settings. Identiv’s specialty designs will be powered by InPlay’s IN100 SoC chipset family and manufactured at Identiv’s facility in Thailand using the latest BLE production technologies.