Hitachi has unveiled industry’s first AirLocation II Tag which is a Wi-Fi active RFID tag. The new tag enables wireless LAN position detection and management of people who enter and leave buildings and it also has an emergency message function. It would be possible to track the position of the people inside the building with this tag.

During emergency situation the emergency message function enables users to shoot off a message to the control center which informs disaster relief officials regarding their position. It would be available at a price of $179.

This would be ensuring precise management of people. Next time reach your office on time as your boss is watching. Jokes apart this could serve as an important tool for helping people who might have been caught in some terrorist attack in case of some natural calamity. There have been instances where precious lives could not be saved as people could not be tracked. Keep it close to you as you never know when it could come to your rescue.

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RFID Definition:
RFID is Radio Frequency Identification technology. This is an automatic identification method that employs RFID tags to retrieve data. A RFID tag can be attached to a product or animal. These RFID tags contain antennas that help them to receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from RFID transceivers. RFID is also called dedicated short range communication (DSRC)
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