{"id":8070,"date":"2026-09-22T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:25:19","slug":"should-standards-trump-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/should-standards-trump-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Standards Trump Innovation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row fullwidth=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;{&#8220;margin-bottom&#8220;:&#8220;35px&#8220;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8072\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/go.tantraanalyst.com\/RFID_Gen2x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8072 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TantraAnalyst_EETimes_Insights_Images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TantraAnalyst_EETimes_Insights_Images.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TantraAnalyst_EETimes_Insights_Images-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TantraAnalyst_EETimes_Insights_Images-700x336.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Originally published in EE Times, on September 22, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Click Here to Read the Article&#8221; color=&#8221;primary&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;{&#8220;margin-bottom&#8220;:&#8220;22px&#8220;}&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Fgo.tantraanalyst.com%2FRFID_Gen2x|target:_blank&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is an unequivocal, unqualified NO!<\/p>\n<p>Across virtually every major wireless technology, from cellular and Wi-Fi to Bluetooth and NFC, standards have played a critical role in creating interoperability, scale, and thriving technology ecosystems. But standards have never represented the end of innovation. As technologies mature and adoption expands, new applications inevitably emerge that push beyond what the original standards were designed to address.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen this evolution repeatedly.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-compute-iot","category-insights","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8083,"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions\/8083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tantraanalyst.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}