Radio frequency identification technologies offer the ability to connect a physical measurement in the real world with information that resides in the digital world. When an RFID-tagged crate of oranges makes it to the loading dock, a scan of the crate can pull up information on when the oranges were harvested and the temperature of the truck in which they were shipped. Then the supplier can be automatically paid. This kind of information maximizes efficiency for moving products and material. The same kind of efficiency can be applied to people tagged with RFID chips. But there are medical, ethical, and even religious overtones that question whether that’s the best thing to do. Writer Bio
