China’s first national demonstration zone for sensor technology creations will be built in Wuxi in the eastern coastal Jiangsu province.
The city is also to establish the China Sensor Technology Research and Development Center, a research and development hub for the industry of Internet of Sensors (IoS), or Internet of Things (IoT), a smart RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology-based system to link things together through wireless network.
Yang Weize, the top official of the city administration, said the city’s IoS industry could yield an annual output of about valued at $14-15 billion by 2012.
iStock Analyst used as a simple example RFID which is capable of identifying information on goods which gives fully automatic fast identity and communication among objects linking to the network. At the moment it is widely used in logistics but is spreading fast into other areas.