Mobile WellBeing

RFID tracking is here. Want to know which medicine, when or what dosis to take? Just start with a home RFID kit for just $50.

Attach the RFID tags to things around your home or office, install the software and you’re good to go. You can use your own programming skills to make your computer do various things when various RFID tags are presented to your reader, or use an application website to link your RFID tags to just about anything on the web.

There are now two products on the market with the same kind of product and service. Mir:ror is an Internet of Things app from the company Violet. As the name suggests, it is literally a mirror – but an Internet-connected one which detects the objects you show it, triggering applications and multimedia content on your computer. It works via RFID stamps. These are colorful adhesive stamps that contain a relay chip. When the user waves a stamped object over the mir:ror, a pre-programmed action occurs. This can also mean reading a message aloud to you.

Second is Touchatag an internet startup from Alcatel-Lucent.  With a Touchatag starter kit and some client software, you can also program your own RFID tags so that they can do anything you want them to do. They can launch an application, deliver you to a URL, and much more. What’s great about Toucha’s tags is that you don’t need a specialized RFID reader in order to scan them. They’re can also be read with a barcodescanner in any enabled mobile phone.

The usage for medicinecontrol are specialy interesting. Reading the stamp you put on the medicinebottle can not only inform the patient with information about his useage, but can also sent data to a medical centre.

The Mir:ror also works with the company’s other internet-connected object: the Nabaztag, a cute robot rabbit that can deliver anything from ambient information through lights and sounds to verbal information.