POLYMERIC SMART MATERIALS: Plastic materials with sensors and RFID systems
The development of new solutions in terms of materials is not only limited to the search and optimization of novel materials that provide new or improved end product based on its composition but also adding new functionalities that provide a new value added to the final product.
The last AMI Consulting report of November 2014, leaders in plastic market research and consultancy, pointed out that plastic industry is a major part of the world economy in 2014 with more than $500 billion per year, which generates a consumption of more than $1 trillion in plastic products. That gives an idea about the potential developments and innovations in this sector.
Talking about innovation in materials, efficiency, sustainability, home automation, autonomy,, inevitably arise as usual terms. The combination of polymeric materials developments and incorporation of sensors or other devices, represent one of the possible lines of action to provide added value final products. In that sense, recently, on Humanoids 2014 Congress, it was presented a humanoid capable of reading RFID tags by incorporating radiofrequency chips on the manufacturing material of its hands. They allow to collect information on product characteristics and to provide information on the treatment thereof. The same principle extrapolated to the incorporation of these systems on other polymeric materials allows the development of applications for monitoring products and process traceability, in-situ leaks, manipulation controls, detection, etc.
Regarding this, the Department of Advanced Materials of CETIM is working on several projects aimed to the development of new polymeric materials with embedded sensors and tags to provide the added features of traceability, monitoring, and control of final products.
The last AMI Consulting report of November 2014, leaders in plastic market research and consultancy, pointed out that plastic industry is a major part of the world economy in 2014 with more than $500 billion per year, which generates a consumption of more than $1 trillion in plastic products. That gives an idea about the potential developments and innovations in this sector.
Talking about innovation in materials, efficiency, sustainability, home automation, autonomy,, inevitably arise as usual terms. The combination of polymeric materials developments and incorporation of sensors or other devices, represent one of the possible lines of action to provide added value final products. In that sense, recently, on Humanoids 2014 Congress, it was presented a humanoid capable of reading RFID tags by incorporating radiofrequency chips on the manufacturing material of its hands. They allow to collect information on product characteristics and to provide information on the treatment thereof. The same principle extrapolated to the incorporation of these systems on other polymeric materials allows the development of applications for monitoring products and process traceability, in-situ leaks, manipulation controls, detection, etc.
Regarding this, the Department of Advanced Materials of CETIM is working on several projects aimed to the development of new polymeric materials with embedded sensors and tags to provide the added features of traceability, monitoring, and control of final products.
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