‘Smarter Philippines’ consists of the following components: Smarter Governance, Smarter People, Smarter High-Tech Industry, Smarter Computing, Smarter SMEs, Smarter Agriculture World Development, Smarter Environmental Healthcare, Energy and Transport, Smarter Disaster and Mitigation, Public Safety and Smarter Cities.
RFID refers to an electronic device that uses radio waves to speed up the transmission of communication data for the purpose of identifying, locating and sensing the conditions of objects, whether animate and inanimate.
“We believe that the RFID technology can complement the DOST’s Smarter Philippines programme, the essence of which is the effective generation, gathering, and analysis of data to enable timely and effective decision making and planning,” said Louis Casambre, Executive Director, ICT-Office.
At present, RFIDs are being used in DOST’s project NOAH or Nationwide Operation on Assessment of Hazards.
Project NOAH aims to provide reliable and authoritative information about weather conditions in the country. It is designed to be a disaster preparedness system to reduce loss of lives, and damages to properties due to rain-triggered natural hazards. It transmits real-time data on the amount of rainfall, temperature, pressure, humidity and wind speed, direction, and velocity to help decision makers during times of natural calamities.
According to Casamabre, RFIDs are crucial for NOAH’s micro-mapping project that uses Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), an equipment designed to survey the entire topography of the Philippines at very high resolution.
He explained that smart sensors similar to those being developed by DOST to monitor weather and geological conditions, vehicular traffic flow, soil and water quality, and others will all be RFID devices.
“RFID is one of the most ubiquitous technologies in the world today, aside from being an essential component of the global supply chain,” he said.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Clarice Africa
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 19.03.2013
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