RFID uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. The tags contain electronically stored information. Passive tags collect energy from a nearby RFID reader’s interrogating radio waves. Active tags have a local power source and may operate hundreds of meters from the RFID reader. Unlike a barcode, the tag need not

Instrumentation is a collective term for measuring instruments used for indicating, measuring and recording physical quantities, and has its origins in the art and science of Scientific instrument-making. The term instrumentation may refer to a device or group of devices used for direct reading thermometers or, when using many sensors, may become part of a

Labview is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. The graphical language is named “G”; not to be confused with G-code. Originally released for the Apple Macintosh in 1986, Lab view is commonly used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation on a variety of operating systems,

MATLAB is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment. A proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, Fortran and Python. Although MATLAB is intended primarily for numerical computing, an