It also need be said that a high-tech solution isn't always the best solution or even a better solution.

I work at a bio-repository with literally hundreds of ultra-low temperature freezers (-80 to -180 degrees C). Staff were complaining they had to write on a paper form every time they accessed a given unit and wanted to know if we could capture that electronically using a database and a bunch of sensors or some kind of mobile technology.

I told them that a piece of paper was really the cheapest and most efficient solution for the purpose.

One other random thought: Good technology rarely if ever "solves" a bad process. Only changing the process does that.