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Samsung announced the Galaxy SmartTag 3, a smaller and longer-lasting Bluetooth tracker with UWB and Bluetooth 6.0 support that now also works with iPhones via cross-OS tracking sharing, launching in Korea on October 7th and the US in early November at $29.99.
Google announces the Pixel Tag, its first own brand item tracker, launching November 11th for $29, featuring UWB and Bluetooth 6.0 Channel Sounding and working with Google's Find Hub network.
This paper presents GAIA, a geometry-aware learning framework for UWB denoising and work-zone reconstruction that couples temporal range modeling with latent anchor-layout estimation. Evaluated on real-world outdoor data, GAIA reduces range MSE by 18.4% and improves polygon IoU by 15.5% over baselines, demonstrating effective boundary-level reconstruction under NLOS conditions.
Schlage's Sense Pro smart lock with UWB hands-free unlocking launches June 29 for $399, supporting Apple Home Key and Aliro standard via Matter over Thread.