Bäume markieren mit RFID
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Dass man mit RFID-Chips allerhand Waren, Medikamente und sogar Reisepässe und Ausweise tracken kann ist hinlänglich bekannt. Doch neuerdings wird auch schon angedacht, Bäume mit RFID-Tags zu versehen und so deren Wachstum und Zustand zu überprüfen. Auf der Webseite von Subni RFID findet sich diese Idee in einer zugegebenermaßen etwas zugespitzten Form:
Subni is a web service which gives physical objects, places, people and things a presence on the internet by attaching these real-life objects with RFID tags which are mapped to metadata about the tagged object through the web service. Subni allows for interactions to occur in the real world via mobile pocket pc clients.
Doch bei Licht betrachtet, ist die Idee mit den Bäumen gar nicht mal so weit hergeholt. RFIDgazette spinnt den Faden weiter und entwirft ein durchaus plausibles Szenario:
For example, amongst the client computing projects that I've worked on, one of the more interesting ones was a forestry-style application for a municipal tree database. For the sample database, I drove around wooded areas and photographed a few clusters of trees. Theoretically, I would have attached some identifying badge to each tree, then recorded approximate geographic coordinates. This information from the field would have been synced up with a central database later, when I "got back from the field."
Now imagine if there was an easier way to manage such a database, and make it central. So put it online, and use durable RFID forestry tags. Provided handheld readers have a wireles connection to the Internet, field agents could update a database – private or public – in real-time. Add environmental sensors and a memory device like the i-Disk RFID flash drive, and environmental conditions could be stored for later analysis.
In fact, any municipal assets such as park benches and bus shelters, could be tagged in this manner. What might also help is a means for citizens to report problems with an asset. At present, if a tree goes down, a bus shelter is smashed, etc., a citizen makes a call and gives the nearest intersection.
Zukunftsmusik? Gewiss! Und vermutlich werden wir eine solche Technologie in der Form nicht erleben. DOch kann man dem Gedankengang eine gewisse Plausibilität nicht absprechen …
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