Hi Jay, I recall when these were first being touted on the street about ten years ago, by companies seeking funding. They were billed as a solution for, among other things, livestock tracking. Behind the ears of cattle, specifically, if my recall of the glossies are correct. We viewed them as a security adjunct, supported by a module in a barcode asset tracking system, for detection of objects that were supposed to be immovable, by intent, but turned out to be quite mobile, in practice. It seems as though PCs were leaving our clients' workspaces in record numbers, at the time.
Of course, since then ID technologies have gone off the map. Smart tags and RF identification source tags backed by logical elements have come along, and they've done the same thing for the security angle. Maybe the idea is to attach price tags on kids, too. That'll work, no? smile
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
