A brief description of the present and future scenario correlated to ICTs will be illustrated. Environmental implication of present societal and technological trends will be analyzed in order to address the most important and relevant issues. On the basis of this analysis, RFID, as an enabling approach compatible with the described scenario, will be introduced and motivated. Future environmentally friendly technologies and architectures, suitable for “green RFID” implementation, will be introduced, namely: paper printed circuits, organic materials, chip-less tag, harmonic RFID, autarkic sensor nodes, CNT based RFID gas sensors and so on. Some application proposals will be reported in order to illustrate the groundbreaking vision enabled by “green RFID” approach; in particular it will be shown the potentiality of the “green RFID” technologies toward the development of a new concept of indoor localization systems and assisted paths as well as the capability of massive use of green RFID tags for extensive monitoring and for measurements in harsh environments where high numbers of wireless sensors is needed without the possibility to recover them. These example applications will be used to draw final considerations about future developments, challenges and perspectives.

Dr. Luca Roselli received the “Laurea” degree in electronic engineering from the University of Florence, Florence,Italy, in 1988. From 1988 to 1991 he worked at the University of Florence on SAW devices. In November 1991, he joined the Institute of Electronics at the University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, as a Research Assistant. Since 1994 he has been teaching Electronic Devices at the same University. In the same year he was the Director of works for the realization of a 35 square meters clean room 100 class at the University of Perugia. Since 2000 he is associate professor at the University of Perugia where he has been teaching Microwave Electronics, High Frequency Components and Applied Electronics.

His research interests, mainly focus on the design of high frequency electronic circuits and systems, including the development of numerical methods for electronic circuit analysis with special attention to RFID-NFC systems, new material electronics and near field wireless power transfer. In these fields he published almost 200 contributions to international reviews and peer reviewed conferences, the interest in which is testified by an H index of 18 (PoP font) and more than 900 citations on international reviews and peer reviewed conferences.