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You could implement this sort of tracking in a very non-intrusive way with RFID: put an RFID scanner in the supply room, which reads the employees' and equipments' RFID tags such that the monitoring system knows that employee X left room Y with equipment Z. Hasn't this sort of thing been in production for years with UPS/WalMart/etc?
Yes, we have a variety of rules and methods to do things like that, but you might be surprised at how many issues there still are. In the Wal-Mart case for example, they spent years trying to get compliance from their suppliers, and in the end they had to cut back on their goals and requirements because of the extra steps (and costs) needed. Also, RFID as a commercialized technology is still relatively new (even thou…
Re: StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object
#41Interesting to see some real-life perspective on this issue. Seems the trade-off is cost vs convenience.