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My main experience with RFID is cloning tags onto T5557 chips, and I don't think I've ever come across a writable tag in the wild. It doesn't seem to make economic sense to spend an extra penny or two on every towel to put in a tag you are never going to change.
This story doesn't quite make sense. I believe that his RSA pass was clonable and that his towel also had an RFID chip embedded in it. What I find hard to believe is that the towel had a writable RFID tag. My main experience with RFID is cloning tags onto T5557 chips, and I don't think I've ever come across a writable tag in the wild. It doesn't seem to make economic sense to spend an extra penny or two on every towe…
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
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One interesting use: https://vimeo.com/157990864 This library lets visitors rearrange the books organically (if you pull out multiple books on a topic, you're encouraged to put them back on the shelf together instead of finding their old homes). The books are tracked with RFID so that they remain easy to find individually.
I'm a frequent library user, and this may be fine for certain types of collections (where you look for very specific books) but is terrible for general use, as you are removing the ability to search by topic.
I can understand the experiment, the dewey-decimal system doesn't have to be the ultimate in organisation.
This story doesn't quite make sense. I believe that his RSA pass was clonable and that his towel also had an RFID chip embedded in it. What I find hard to believe is that the towel had a writable RFID tag. My main experience with RFID is cloning tags onto T5557 chips, and I don't think I've ever come across a writable tag in the wild. It doesn't seem to make economic sense to spend an extra penny or two on every towe…
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How do they prevent theft, exactly?
No idea - the article says "to help with inventory control" which doesn't help matters much.
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How do they prevent theft, exactly?
A customer checks in and is given a towel with a customer specific RFID attached. If at the point the customer checks out and the towel is not in the room, it is assumed to be missing or stolen.
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
I would probably hold off on the butt chip. Why not get an optical viewer and train it to understand when you need help with the door?