Global Technology – September 2014

Next, let's focus on this month's most important advances in technology.

If the Internet of Things is going to achieve its full potential, we'll need to provide connectivity to the as many as a trillion battery-free devices embedded in everyday objects.

Now, a team of University of Washington engineers has designed a new communication system that uses radio frequency signals as a power source and reuses existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to provide Internet connectivity to battery-free devices.

This technology is called Wi.....