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2012-02-15

Week 3 - Application of RFID in schools


You may know that the Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been widely recognized technology to enhance efficiency across warehouse management and supply chain network.  Actually, RFID refers to the technologies that made use of radio frequency transmission to identify people or objects automatically. To understand the operations of RFID, you may simply click below demonstration video:


You may also ask why we need RFID rather than Bar code in order to identify objects. The answer can be found in the following table which shows the comparison between Bar Code and RIFD.
Really, RFID has been applied to educational sector yet. Likewise, a new workbook was published with using RFID.  The RFID-based book is able to stimulate students' learning interest and enhance quality of learning by accompanying with voice explanations from RFID when students read over the workbook.  

 
Furthermore, there are also other applications of RFID extensively used in schools, like students' attendance records, queuing problem, students' safety assured by sending messages via mobiles to parents.


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  1. This is an interesting sharing on the use of RFID in schools. I have never through of such an application in schools. Thanks for the nice videos.

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