The Internet of Everything
A recent winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards is developing a system that could be capable of tagging and tracking everything that people use on a day-to-day basis, from the time it’s manufactured to wherever it ends up, taking the Internet of Things to a whole new level. Aptly named EVRYTHNG, the technology would assign a digital identity to every physical product – clothing, beverages, cleaning products, food items, to name just a few. Using QR codes, RFID tags, and Bluetooth tags, EVRYTHNG would manage data throughout the entire product life cycle on its Product Cloud platform.
The company is already working with dozens of big-name consumer brands. While digitizing inventory has obvious advantages for manufacturing and supply chain management, it will also help to identify counterfeit goods.
The technology has benefits for the consumer as well. For example, EVRYTHNG gives grocery shoppers the ability to track where their food originated, when it was harvested, and how it was transported. Many items could also be conveniently reordered simply by scanning the QR code. And the codes can be integrated into customer rewards programs.Although it may be a long way off from tracking literally everything, by developing an open, standardized format for tagging, EVRYTHNG has come up with a platform that is highly scalable with an eye to the future.
For information: Niall Murphy, CEO, EVRYTHNG, 23 West 23rd Street, Suite 200, New York, NY 10010; Web site: https://evrythng.com/