Tourism goes RFID in Kyoto and Shiga

By Ryan Block


Uji and Hikone (in Kyoto and Shiga, Japan, respectively) are launching a pilot RFID-based sightseeing program as early as October, wherein interested parties (i.e. tourists) can use phones, PDAs, or other connected devices with RFID
readers to get information on their surrounds (not too different sounding than the
Town Pocket RFID program, if you ask us). This also seems a lot more practical than the Node Explorer, which is not only proprietary but might have messy GPS reception issues to deal with. RFID, wave of the future, dude.

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