EPC RFID Lifecycle Management: Driving a Sustainable Future

EHP 111-9, 2003: Connecting to a Sustainable Future

... "Before the end of this decade, there will be an Internet of things. The Auto-ID Center, a partnership of almost 100 global companies and 5 of the world's leading research universities, is developing a global infrastructure that will allow computers to identify any object anywhere in the world instantly, through the use of radio-frequency identification tags (RFID). Every product, and even individual parts, will have its own unique identity (an electronic product code, or ePC) burned onto a tiny microchip equipped with an antenna. " ...