InCom, a California company, has developed a an RFID based attendence and tracking system to be used in schools. Badges with RFID chips are distributed to students who can then be tracked throughout a campus, wherever overhead readers are installed. The company is marketing it as an easy, error free, way for faculty to take attendance.
InCom piloted the system at Brittan Elementary School in California but had to remove it early due protests from parents and civil liberties groups.
I wonder how long it will be before libraries and other companies, who already have RFID systems installed, attach tags to I.D. cards as well.
Written by Julie Britten, a Technology Specialist for the John C. Murphy Memorial Library in Grayslake, Illinois. Julie lives in a lovely little apartment in the Chicago suburbs with her two kitties, loves her Canon EOS Digital Rebel, Gummy Bears, and Trillian. Technology and geeks rock her world.
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