Electronic tags, labels, smart packages and smart packaging components, namely, encoded electronic chip cards for inclusion with articles in transit or in storage for sensing and recording multiple inputs relating to handling and environment, namely, programmable and non-programmable single and multiple-use data loggers with sensing capabilities for measuring, monitoring and recording handling and environment data such as vibration, temperature and humidity data; optical and electronic readers for reading and downloading data recorded by the aforesaid data loggers; computer software for programming the aforesaid data loggers and data logger readers, and for analyzing the acquired handling and environment data, the aforesaid data loggers operating on wireless frequencies, such as RFID, NFC, UHF, HF and other frequencies, whether or not connected, integrated, plugged in or otherwise attached to each other or to other readers, recorders, units, base stations, GPS devices or computers; Internet protocol software for data transfer and wireless or wired handshaking of the aforesaid tags and labels with each other or with a reading or recording device; software for identifying the location of wireless tags; software, computer operating systems and algorithms for multiple-tag to single- or multiple-reader communication and segregation; computer firmware and integrated circuits for the operation of the aforementioned readers, data recorders, tags, devices and labels