There's a very good general article on RFID technology in Guardian Online:
'The Internet of Things' - how appropriate is that!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1058506,00.html
Also 'Second Sight'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1265854,00.html
Search Guardian Online for RFID and there are loads more examples of
applications.
best to all
Suzanne
on 15/10/04 2:15 pm, Mike Stapleton at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> I note in a recent news article that the Vatican Library is a fair way
> in to a project to tag 2 million or so books in its collection with RFID
> tags. The original aim was to speed up the annual inventory process -
> expected to reduce the time taken for the task from a month to a day.
>
> It's a technology where the costs are expected to drop rapidly.
> Is anyone planning or carrying out such a project in the UK or
> is it anathema to consider sticking RFID tags to objects.?
>
> The technology would dovetail very nicely with procedures for
> Inventory Control, Location and Movement Control, Audit, Use,
> Loans out (for handling kits) etc
>
> Mike Stapleton
> System Simulation
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