July 08, 2004

Japanese Children to Be RFID Tagged

Concerns about school safety have led one primary school in Japan to adopt RFID technology to track its students, according to the Osaka bureau of telecommunications industy.

The National Business Review reports:

"Tag readers will be installed at the school gate and at other key locations parents and teachers agree are dangerous for children.

"RFID tag data can be transmitted to central databases by wireless connections and taged items can be tracked in real or near-real time, depending on software and hardware capacity constraints."

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