Futurists have envisioned a day when low-cost radio frequency identification sensors will monitor soil conditions across large farms and gather data in hostile or remote environments, such as rivers ...

Sensors and automatic identification have already transformed supply chains. RFID tags and scanners, barcodes, QR codes, and handheld or fixed position scanners and imagers generate real-time data ...

Active RFID sensor: An active RFID tag integrated with a sensor that measures temperature, the presence of radiation or other environmental conditions. Active RFID sensors communicate only with a ...

IBM on Tuesday introduced middleware that can gather data from a wide variety of networked sensors, analyze it, and feed it into other enterprise applications that can also use the data to make ...