The Objectal Personality: Toward a New Class of Autonomous Objects in the Service of Sustainability using embedded RFID for both infrastructural and external communication as an interobject exchange type modus.

The present innovation describes the concept of objectal personality, implemented within a class of autonomous, interconnected objects organized into an RFID mesh network, analogous to the IoT model, although not connected to the cloud. The objectal personality is designed to endow each object with a new ontology status. The goal is thus to perpetuate the object instead of subjecting it to a cycle of elimination and renewal. To this end, each object integrates a passive tag, embedded in a smart polymer capable of reacting to a number of environmental stimuli such as temperature, humidity, or pH.

These objects can detect the loss of integrity of their material envelope as well as to autonomously initiate a call to a repair facility. This request is issued by a nanoprocessor housed within the object. The nanoprocessor is entrusted with the object’s memory, critical information about its state, and knowledge of the actions required for its own regeneration. Once triggered, it communicates with relevant repair agents throughout the entire journey—from the request to the restoration at the designated machine. These communications are secured and closed-loop.

This first level of autonomy allows an object to maintain itself in operational condition through self-diagnosis and external coordination. The second level of autonomy lies in the object’s ability to signal its disuse. An object unused beyond a threshold—defined by the user—declares itself out of order. Coachy, the personal domestic robot companion, receives this signal, queries the object for its designated storage coordinate, and restores it to its place. Coachy operates independently and is equipped with a robotic cart assistant, enabling it to reposition all objects without any intervention by the household resident.

The objectal personality especially shines in the application to a new generation of containers. These containers—intended for any room of the home—are capable of knowing their own capacity, monitoring their fill level, and signaling the need for refilling. They do so to a specific Contextual Management Unit (CMU), which collects the information and, upon reaching a threshold, contacts the manufacturer to initiate delivery. The delivery may be performed by a mobile robot or another efficient system. Refills may be synchronized with weekly grocery deliveries for optimal logistics.

The goal is to eliminate the entire production loop of disposable packaging, starting from raw material extraction to landfill disposal. This paradigm results in an indescribably large decrease in environmental impact. It also opens the way for new commercial and ecological standards.

These intelligent objects, made of functionally differentiated smart materials, form a sustainable and evolutive layer within the home. They are orchestrated by a top-down architecture: each node plays a defined role, from passive temperature detectors to aggregating memory nodes. The central nanoprocessor hosts the objectal identity and coordinates all critical operations. It is the keystone of this new object ecology.