USPS to use sensors to collect data while delivering your mail.

"U.S. Postal Service is seeking a company to help develop a program called the Internet of Postal Things. The Risk Analysis Research Center (RARC), part of the Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), is looking for a supplier "who possesses expertise and critical knowledge of the Internet of Things, data strategy and analytics, and the Postal Service’s operations, infrastructure, products and services"

"[T]he ability to embed sensors and other data collection technologies into physical objects, infrastructures, and the surroundings in which people live and businesses operate – is one of the latest technology revolutions that are affecting the nature of business. "

[link to www.weeklystandard.com]

Now look at wireless sensor networks can do
Thread: DARPA funded - Wireless Sensor Networks - This will scare you

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