Editing Telemetry (section)

==={{anchor|Retail businesses}}Retail===
At a 2005 workshop in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]], a seminar noted the introduction of telemetry equipment which would allow [[vending machine]]s to communicate sales and inventory data to a route truck or to a headquarters.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} This data could be used for a variety of purposes, such as eliminating the need for drivers to make a first trip to see which items needed to be restocked before delivering the inventory.

Retailers also use [[RFID]] tags to track inventory and prevent shoplifting. Most of these tags passively respond to RFID readers (e.g., at the cashier), but active RFID tags are available which periodically transmit location information to a base station.