Streamlining and Testing RFID Technology 69
Multiple readers have written to let us know that an experiment at the upcoming Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference will use RFID to track the movements of at least 1,500 registrants for the duration of the conference. Those movements will be transmitted onto screens which "show in real-time where people go, with whom they associate, for how long and how often." The system will also be used for games which involve manipulation of the available data. Meanwhile, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a method for testing large quantities of RFID tags, which may serve to greatly speed distribution.
Reminds me of TraceEncounters (Score:2, Informative)
ArsElectronica 2004 project to track 900 people at a conference.
Re:dammit (Score:3, Informative)
Well, they could put the tags in a tamper-proof portion of the con badge - behind a sticker or something that shows clearly when it has been removed. I doubt a lot of people would forfeit their convention fee by destroying their badge.
Track the Planet (Score:2, Informative)
In the east they let you monitor employees during the day in the factories/facilites so they wear RFID tags and you can watch them just like the material that moves around the buildings.
know where the breakrooms and bathrooms are? then watch for the tags disappearing out that door and send them a page/text if they are not back withing 5 minutes! the unions would have a field day in the west!
it does work though - only the slackers have a problem with it and only if you have bad managemement would it be abused. so, yeah, you couldn't use it in the US.