Archive: https://archive.today/HSM4D From the post: >>A quartet of Japanese organisations plan to build “advanced ambient internet of things systems” using a newly approved ISO standard. The standard is ISO/IEC 18000-65, aka “Parameters for air interface communications for streaming sensors based on ISO/IEC 18000-63.” The background to the standard is that passive tags like RFIDs contain very limited information and don’t have a power source. Light ‘em up with radio waves and the small amount of energy produced sees the tags transmit that information – essentially their name, rank, and serial number. That makes RFIDs handy in warehouses where they’re used to identify items without requiring visual inspection or line-of-sight devices like a barcode scanner.