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Purpose of this paper is to illustrate an innovative method to exploit an "RFID virtual channel" in future RFID ecosystems. Specifically, it describes a technique that allows groups of RFID readers to use the residual User Memory Bank (UM Bank) of nearby RFID tags to establish a piconet and to exchange data. The implications of such a use are extremely interesting in a perspective of future IoT applications designed for environments with a massive presence of conventional RFID tags and/or (EPCglobal compliant) sensorized RFID tags.

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Past crises all over the world (09/11, tsunami, etc.) have highlighted the importance of the availability of critical upto-date information in real-time at the place where required. The key need is, consequently, for reliable communication systems to coordinate emergency operations even when existing infrastructures are damaged. In this case, rapidly deploying adhoc networks in the disaster area is a feasible solution.Incident Area Network (IAN), are self-forming temporary network infrastructures brought to the scene of an incident to support personal and local communications among different public safety end-users. This paper aims at defining the system architecture of IANs where the cooperation among terminals is foreseen. Furthermore, several open issues are identified and possible solutions are proposed.