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Can RFID help diabetics maintain proper blood sugar levels? Can RFID help ensure the efficacy of vaccines and other biologicals in the healthcare environment? Can RFID help make sure your food is fresh and help identify the source of contaminants? Can RFID keep you safer on the highway?

Alone or in combination with a variety of sensors, RFID can do all of these things -- and sometimes in ways that aren't immediately obvious.

Among the newest types of sensor-enabled RFID applications is one developed by Georgia Tech that allows blood glucose levels to be communicated instantly and continually, without the need for diabetics to remember to test and take blood samples. For the most severe cases, the minute-by-minute availability of this information can be critical.

Sensor-enabled RFID tags that track the temperature of perishables in transit or storage enable those in the supply chain to know whether to pull the product because it has undergone a temperature spike that renders it unfit for sale or use or whether, and by how much, to adjust the "sell by" or "use by" date based on the actual freshness of the product, not hypothetical data.

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