Smart Objects Building the Internet of Things

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology allows automatic identification of objects with the help of a small electronic chip. The data stored on this “smart tag“ can be read by wireless devices, called RFID readers.

Imagine an enormous number of smart tags interacting with and transmitting information to each other and with decentralised and central systems. Imagine real world objects being identified by RFID and having an individual digital presence. This future dimension of technologies like RFID is called the Internet of Things (IOT).