It can be about applying IoT intelligence to remote equipment monitoring of items such as vending machines (as an aside, one of the first applications of M2M tech was status reporting for vending machines using dial-up modems in the late 1980s and early 1990s).
This revealed the existence of a secret GCHQ programme called Tempora, which taps into transatlantic internet cables to monitor millions of items of correspondence.
Examples of these applications include locating misplaced items, continuous monitoring of objects (items in a store, boxes in transit), and determining locations of disaster survivors.Recent advances in ultra-low-power wireless communications, ultra-wideband (UWB) circuit design, and organic electronic harvesting techniques will enable the realization of EnHANTs in the near future.
Facility management (FM) relies heavily on the constant monitoring of numerous items located throughout the building to be proactive when it comes to preventative maintenance.
As part of the clinical assessment at The Clinic for Affective Disorder, a paper version with daily monitoring of subjective items such as mood and medication was used for 4 years.
We focused on the more useful case of monitoring items that are necessary for life, such as food, vaccines, and blood, by mechanically actuating a signal when the product quality should be checked.
Their fantasy policy of actively monitoring the billions of items uploaded or written on the internet is rooted in ignorance, and sooner or later must be abandoned.
It is not possible to monitor large numbers of items at the same time in a sustained event-monitoring task.
Services like Wealthfront and Betterment are collectively managing tens of billions of dollars in consumer assets, using automated algorithms--in many cases unsupervised--to trade and monitor the statuses of items like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
The Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic SUSRR) has been given the task of monitoring the prices of dozens of basic items after euro adoption, and the government has stated that it will step in and regulate prices if it perceives that price-gouging is taking place.
