December 22, 2006
If These Walls Could Talk: RFID + Smart Concrete
And now they can. It sounds like something out of science fiction. Imagine if your walls could store infomation and then, with the help of a suitable scanner, speak its data. Pink Tentacle has an illustration of a room made of cyber-concrete. The concrete, developed by researchers at a cement company in Japan, is "smart" in that it has embedded RFID tags in it. Their chips are endowed with more memory than usual.
Applications being touted are for monitoring of structural integrity. Data that could be stored includes safety inspection dates, etc. Now, if these tags were combined with environmental sensors like some newer RFID chips have, they could also record information about heat or moisture, which could prove very valuable for structural integrity monitoring. They could also components of fire monitoring systems or for detecting chemicals.
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