This is the last blog and one of the hardest I find to write. The Web of Things, wow what a topic there is so much to choose from. Pretty much we all know from the last weeks lecture what it is, but for those who don’t it’s the amazing path that currently household items will take in a quest to become smarter and work harder for us! So to do this it requires normal household items, to become a separate entity. Basically we are almost trying to make them become more human in the way that they can not only think about an idea but act on it to. We are giving products the eyes and ears through sensors and RFID technology to see and react to our environment.
What I found that was really interesting for me coming from a farming back ground is the use of this tech in animals. It has been around for quite some time in dogs and cats when you take it to the vet to get its “microchip”. What this is usually is a passive RFID chip that is about the size of a grain of rice. This allows a sensor to read data that is associated with the animal on request. That’s cool and all but what if this chips as well as giving information when requested, but when it detects a change and could transmit this info. This is what battery assisted “active” RFID can help with. Back to the animals, this website http://www.ti.com/rfid/shtml/apps-anim-tracking-id.shtml gives a few details on how animal RFID tagging works. It can provide farmers with information on a individual animals heart rate, body temp, if it has not moved from the same location via GPS and much more to ensure that if something is out of the ordinary the farmers will know about it. Very helpful when each cow can be worth over a $1000 and the tags are only $3.
This future will be amazing with the internet being the core of all this technologic growth. I have learnt so much in this subject, I hope you have to.
Thanks for tuning in, cheers Duncs
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