These different scenarios leveraged sensor data from different technologies but all provided the foundation for building solutions based on a core aspect of smarter planet solutions: instrumentation.

This article, the conclusion to this series, highlights some of these products and explains how they can be used in combination with WebSphere Sensor Events in smarter planet solutions.

RFID tags, which have been used to identify everything from cattle to tombstones, will not be the only type of sensor crowding the planet.