Applications of new RFID Tag
Mahmoud Wagih is a lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s James Watt School of Engineering, and author of the white paper and article about the new tag in the Advanced Science journal.
He explains that this range means that the tags would be best suited to food safety and medical applications. Tags could be placed on products displayed in a store and the consistency of temperature monitored along the shelf. “If for example one region in that shelf is now overheating, or something is not cooling in one part of the fridge” that data could be acted upon in real time, said University of Glasgow research associate, Benjamin King.
He explains though that there are far more applications: “That sensing material, its properties change in response to whatever stimuli that we have in mind so there’s really nothing stopping us from being able to design a humidity sensitive material or pressure sensitive material — the potential versatility is interesting.”
