HP RFID Technology: Hewlett-Packard expands its RFID footprint

From San Jose Business Journal, CA  ... Hewlett-Packard Co. is expanding its investment in RFID technology, the new way of better tracking inventories of merchandise. The ...

HP is rolling out its first RFID-ready products as part of a Wal-Mart trial, however HP is a leader in using and understanding RFID technology. The company uses RFID within its own supply chain, provides RFID services to customers, and is part of the global effort on RFID standards. HP Labs is taking RFID technology even further.
For HP Labs, RFID enables a Sentient Environment, which knows precisely what happens to objects in its vicinity. This environment is designed to ensure that goods are not only in a specific location, but in a specific condition. HP RFID researchers are combining the object-tracking abilities of RFID with sensors that capture video images, determine location or measure environmental factors like temperature or humidity into a powerful RFID infrastructure, called Sentient Environments.