Government of Japan needs a cheap, fast and easy way (to be specific wirelessly) to evaluate disaster damages. If you wonder what’s the technology that can solve the answer here, yes, you guessed it right, it’s RFID. In fact the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) is developing a system that can sprinkle heat, infrared, and vibration sensing RFID tags from choppers onto the disaster areas by deploying a RFID network.



On the first phase, a 10,000 sensors will survey a sample area which would be the size of an airport. No wonder, the government considers the process as a really cost-effective method which will assess damages and will be able to find survivors.



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