EU Lays Out Plans for the ‘Internet of Things’

The European Commission (EC) has developed a 14-point action plan to address some of the problems that could develop when everyday objects such as food packaging and prescription drug containers are equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags as part of an effort to create an “Internet of things.” Such a network could have a number of benefits, including the ability of food packaging to record temperatures along a supply chain or warn patients when they are taking two prescription drugs that are incompatible with one another.

More info here.

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One Response to “EU Lays Out Plans for the ‘Internet of Things’”

Johann Renner
June 23rd, 2009 09:54
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This plans can be very interesting in order to understand the potential of IoT real applications. Although it is a novel technology, we have to be prepared and develop skills to use the existing and future tools. That way we will be able to create cutting edge applications!

You can find the plan here: http://tinyurl.com/m3spee (it’s a PDF document)