Thursday, 10 January 2008

RFID + WSN Application

What would be the future application for RFID and wireless sensor network technology?

Since the US government invested 19$ budget in 2004, several projects have been researched by military service and research institute.
WSN will be used in DoD, health Care, transportation, Industrial Automation, Retail Industry, manufacturing, retail/supply chain, environment , disaster prevention and home network as well.
DoD
If mote can be spread out in enemy's area using remote-controlled spy plane, the mote can make communication network and activate the sensors then it can detect vehicle and its route. There are many research project which are sponsored by military, Vanderbuilt college has researched about ‘Shooter Localization’ project for military purpose and Ohio Sate university has researched about ‘Line in the Sand’ project to figure out enemy’s movement based on vibration sensors and UCLA has developed ‘Power Aware Distributed Systems’ based on vibration and actuator sensors in enemy’s area.
Environment
- Using temperature, humidity, heat, location, vibration sensors, application can detect and control environment in real time and prevent and efficient response when the fire or collapse is occurred.
Disaster Prevention
- Application can decide and notify disaster based on sensing data analysis
Health care
- Application can detect and analyze patients health from bio sensors which can collect pulse, temperature and blood pressure of patient. Through this application, doctors can monitor, diagnose and prescribe the patient in distant when emergency occurs.
If temperature sensor and humidity sensors are attached to blood or anti-cancer medicines, this application can provide right temperature and humidity and raise down blood disposal ratio.
Transportation
- Using vibration, actuator, application can detect crash or traffic and control traffic congestion efficiently in real time.
Retail/Supply Chain
If WSN technology is combined with RFID, then RFID/WSN can be applied retail/supply chain management area very efficiently. RFID will be used in Identification/Access &Tracking, . sensor network can collect, analyze, transmit to monitor & control.
These applications will be commercialized soon according to sensor node manufacturing company such as SAIC (Science Application International Co.) , Dust Networks , Sensicast System

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I love the picture who shows the different applications. Can you give me the source of the picture, where it is higher resolved?

Thanks,
Andrea

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