Despite being oh-so-promising years ago, we've seen little innovation in the RFID space over the past several months. Today, however, CenTrak's proving that the dream is still somewhat alive. The outfit has just introduced the planet's thinnest hybrid active Radio Frequency Identification tag, which is said to be so thin that it's almost "indistinguishable from a standard employee badge." The IT-740 Staff Badge checks in at just three millimeters thick and includes a trio of programmable buttons, a system controlled LED, hole mounts for portrait or landscape orientation, water resistance for easy cleaning and "ultra long battery-life." For employees, rocking one of these guarantees that your superior will recognize every step you take, every move you make and every bond you break. Which, sadly enough, isn't nearly as bodacious as The Police make it sound. Bonus coverage after the break.
Someone will find away around this. People are so lazy they will work real hard to keep that laziness. This is just a temporary joke in the real world that will never catch on and even if it does; someone will hack this too.
if you link this tag directly to the muscle hart and you make it a peace-maker-tag-badge ... you obtain first-indestructible-unbreakable-schedule for your employees.
Badge sized RFID is not too big of a deal. We had that for decades. This is active, it has batteries, buttons, communicated over RF to server but the main location ID is over IR. So it is room-level accurate. This is cool tech.
And about big brother... Nobody will use it if the people developing the apps for this thing uses it as big brother. No benefit to the person wearing it= nobody will wear it.
600-800 microns is not that much thinner my friend. Besides, all that gear has to get packed in somewhere. I think they just mean the basic form factor is the same width and height as a standard badge. 3 mm is not so ungodly thick.
Yup they tried to use something like this on the staff funny how how hundreds suddenly broke after someone got in trouble at a place I worked because of the tracking data. It did make for some good practical jokes though easy to fool.
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posted May 5th 2009 9:11AM
I can see where this is going:
You' re Fired , spending to much time on the toilet.
Someone will find away around this. People are so lazy they will work real hard to keep that laziness. This is just a temporary joke in the real world that will never catch on and even if it does; someone will hack this too.
Just leave the tag at your desk. :)
Long life to the RFID-ZAPPER !!
1st.
if you link this tag directly to the muscle hart and you make it a peace-maker-tag-badge ... you obtain first-indestructible-unbreakable-schedule for your employees.
Wrap the RFID tag in aluminum foil and you have it "foiled". Metal is the Achilles heel of active RFID.
Badge sized RFID is not too big of a deal. We had that for decades. This is active, it has batteries, buttons, communicated over RF to server but the main location ID is over IR. So it is room-level accurate. This is cool tech.
And about big brother... Nobody will use it if the people developing the apps for this thing uses it as big brother. No benefit to the person wearing it= nobody will wear it.
What? A standard employee ID badge is like a LOT thinner than 3mm.
600-800 microns is not that much thinner my friend. Besides, all that gear has to get packed in somewhere. I think they just mean the basic form factor is the same width and height as a standard badge. 3 mm is not so ungodly thick.
Why does this look like the very ancient forerunner of the Star Trek Badge/Communicator?
And right on cue, your boss gets to sing along as well...
"I'll be watching you... Oh can't you see, you belong to me!" but I doubt their fool heart aches with every step the employees take...
because swiping a smart card is just sooo difficult and time consuming, it's worth throwing security out with the bathwater.
Yup they tried to use something like this on the staff funny how how hundreds suddenly broke after someone got in trouble at a place I worked because of the tracking data. It did make for some good practical jokes though easy to fool.