RFID rains from on high
By Ryan Block 
posted March 20th 2006 10:15AM
posted March 20th 2006 10:15AM
Government need a
cheap, quick, easy way to assess disaster damages? Well, what's cheap, quick, easy, and wireless? You guessed it: RFID. Apparently the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and
Communications (MIC) wants to rain heat, infrared, and vibration sensing RFID tags from choppers onto disaster sites
creating a RFID-mesh network, of sorts. Apparently a mere 10,000 sensors could survey an area as broad as a large
airport, and even at a very costly buck a pop, it still weighs in as an extremely cost-effective method of assessing
damages and finding survivors.[Via RFID in Japan]
My how times have changed. It used to be 52 pickup.
I don't see how RFID tags will help find survivors.
There is nothing that beats a search and rescue dog.
This is getting ridiculous.
Oh great. I live in Seattle. Earthquake central here in the Pacific NW.
A 7.0 rattler hits town, death and destruction are widespread. FEMA drops RFID chips looking for my black ass and the sensors are supposed to filter out aftershocks, things settling and going bump in the dark, and other vibrations? Send trained dogs in after me, thank you very much.
Once again, we see RFID being positioned as a "solution" chasing its tail looking for a problem to solve.