This work presents a novel solution (WebTag) for a direct IP based access to a sensor tag over the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for secure applications.  ...  WebTag allows a direct web access to the sensor tag by means of a standard web browser, it reads the sensor data, configures the sampling rate and implements IP based security policies.  ...  Conclusions This paper introduces WebTag, a new concept of smart sensor tags with web access. It is based on the near field (NFC) point-to-point technology over a micro embedded web server.  ...