Incycling: sustainable concept for instrumenting everyday commodities

In this paper we present "Incycling" - a sustainable concept for instrumenting everyday commodities with instrumentations like memory, sensors, processor unit and communication modules. The term "Incycling" is an abbreviation of Instrumentation Cycling and figuratively describes the idea of the concept which is mainly based on an in-house reuse of the instrumentation which will considerably improve the cost-benefit ratio of instrumentations. In addition an assistance system would assist the user in the right selection and configuration of instrumentations for objects. We argue that such the instrumentation of everyday commodities and convenience goods will become feasible by non-experts and in terms of money. The concept will be showcased in an example scenario demonstrating a drug interaction alert system.