RFID keeps seafood fresh
The Binh An catfish and Caminex shrimp export companies are the first Vietnamese seafood firms to apply a traceability system to oversee food safety, says Vietnam News.
The Mekong Delta-based companies, located in Can Tho and Ca Mau provinces, respectively, will operate the system for the next three months.
The traceability system, which will use RFID technology to track seafood exports, will help ensure export purity and freshness.
RFIDs track defence staff
The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is looking to use RFID chips to track its personnel, in emergency situations only, not every minute of their lives, says Next Gov.
DIA wants a system that can automatically track all the people who enter its buildings, and if those buildings are evacuated in an emergency, it wants to track those who have left.
One good approach could be to combine the people-tracking function with the chip-based key fobs used to provide employee access to many buildings in the Washington area, combing two functions in one gizmo, and a related database.
RFID gives voice to children
When nonverbal students at New York Public Schools District 75 in Queens first got their hands on the Logan ProxTalker, developed by Connecticut start-up company ProxTalker.com, they began communicating, says RFID Journal.
According to Karen Gorman, the district's assistive technology evaluation coordinator, it all started with a simple "good morning." But when the children - who are not able to speak due to multiple disabilities, such as autism - began working with the device given to them by their teacher, they were soon putting together entire sentences.
The Logan ProxTalker, about the size of a laptop computer, employs RFID to help a child instruct the machine what to say, and comes with an RFID interrogator and tags, each with a word or phrase, and usually a corresponding image, printed on the front.
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