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Use Your Smartphone as Your Car Key with an NFC Lock

Use Your Smartphone as Your Car Key with an NFC Lock

Pierre Charlier

By Pierre Charlier

Pierre Charlier

My name is Pierre Charlier, an apprentice engineer at CITC-EuraRFID, where I’m currently learning hardware engineering applied to radio and contactless applications. Hacking is a passion for me, any kind of hacking: hardware, software but also pyrotechnics.

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Adding an NFC unlocker to your car allows you to open your vehicle with your phone, or an NFC ring.

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Recycled Energy: Ambient Backscatter Allows Wireless Communications with no Batteries

Recycled Energy: Ambient Backscatter Allows Wireless Communications with no Batteries

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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A team at the University of Washington has just come up with something that could become the next big thing for the Internet of Things. They’re using existing TV and cellular transmissions—ambient RF energy that’s in the air around already—both as a communication medium, and as a source of power.

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