Personal protective equipment (PPE) such as safety, protective or working shoe for professional use and the like equipped with a transponder designed to identify the item, with memorization of the number or name of the article, the class and/or other peculiar characteristics, the size, the color, the date of manufacture and any other data and also if need be to monitor the data relative to its being placed in use, treatments performed and other events, and also to allow identification of the user, said transponder being designed to supply the data to a reading and processing and/or reporting means, through a univocal code contained in the transponder.