Imagine if your products and equipment could tell you where they are and how they ‘re being used. Imagine that the components and products you buy or sell carried a unique identifier that would enable real-time authentication with 100 percent accuracy. What if you could reduce theft by knowing exactly when and where your products were disappearing? These are just a few examples of Silent Commerce, which makes ordinary objects intelligent andinteractive. Using advanced tagging and sensor technologies (RFID, MEMS, etc.), coupled with wireless communication and other emerging technologies, Silent Commerce enables objects to communicate directly with customers, suppliers, employees and even each other.
Editor’s Note: see related articles,
for a good overview of RFID, see the European Business Forum (EBF) article “Had a chat with your refrigerator lately?” at:
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Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
