This report details the Phase 1 effort conducted by the University of Florida and the University of South Florida Polytechnic as part of a multi-year, multi-phase effort entitled Remote Environmental Monitoring and Diagnostics in the Perishables Supply Chain. This work was conducted during the period October 2008 to December 2010 and involved the investigation and application of various technologies including wireless temperature sensors, remote monitoring using radio frequency identification (RFID), ...