RFID and the Internet of Things

Inspiration Session #5

A RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) tag consists of a small silicon microchip attached to an antenna.

An RFID tag is capable of transmitting a unique serial number a distance of up several meters in response to a query from a reading device.

Some nice examples

http://www.allfacebook.com/coca-cola-marketing-2010-08

http://www.psfk.com/2010/05/rfid-media-player-controls-interaction-with-physical-objects.html

http://www.personalrosettastone.com/

Some future concepts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk&feature=player_embedded

The machines are coming

The Internet of Things is a growing trend; the term defines the idea of objects that are tagged, web-connected and endowed with the ability to relay data.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEbMV295Kk&feature=player_embedded

HP's Central Nervous System for the Planet, or CeNSE, a project to place a trillion push pin-sized sensors all over the planet as infrastructure for the Internet of Things.

What does this all mean?

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