There’s no doubt that schools and teachers can face significant challenges trying to keep track of hundreds of students and assure their safety while simultaneously teaching them something. (I can personally attest that I was rarely learning something at the same time my teachers knew where I was.) Now AT&T is looking to apply technology to the problem, offering a comprehensive child-tracking solution for the K-12 education market combining RFID and GPS technologies to enable schools to keep track of school bus locations and speed while simultaneously monitoring events within the vehicles.
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Employees Get RFID Chips For Security
Employees at a surveillance equipment company have voluntarily agreed to have RFID chips implanted in their forearm. The company is trying to send a message that RFID can indeed be used as a decentsecurity method. The two employees who volunteered for the chip implant have access to a vault containing data and images from cameras the company has installed. CityWatcher.com has contracts withsix cities to provide cameras and Internet monitoring of high-crime areas. Thus, anyone who gained access to the vault would be in reach of extremely confidential and private material.
RFID Industry Predicts Bright Forecast
Research and Markets has released a new study titled “RFID Industry–A Market Update”, providing an in-depth analysis of the RFID Industry. According to industry statistics, the worldwide market for RFID technology was US $1.49 billion in 2004. The growth prospects for the RFID market are very bright. The report discusses the RFID Industry figures to go up from US $1.95 billion in 2005 to $26.9 billion in 2015. The RFID vendors are increasingly gaining from the sale of RFID hardware components.
Walmart: RFID Is Here To Stay
“Wal-Mart and other retailers say RFID will help them track goods throughout the supply chain and ultimately will help them get the right products in the right stores at the right time. It’ll also help locate specific products anywhere in the supply chain, which should make recalls easier to manage. “Getting merchandise to the shelf is important to us,” Dillman said. “Tracking recalls is one of the next projects Wal-Mart is working on.”
RFID is not new. But before Wal-Mart revealed its initiative, the technology was used mainly for tracking very high-value assets. One analyst has called RFID “the oldest emerging technology,” said Julie England, VP of Texas Instruments Inc. and general manager of its RFID business.”
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