RFID Used To Tag Children In Japan

An interesting article appearing on the rfidjournal.com website stated how the authorities in Yokohama City, Japan will tag school children in an effort to study of RFID technology can monitor their safety to and from school.

The software that is being used to monitor this is AeroScout I-Safety, which involves having the child wear a bracelet with a 2.4 GHz RFID tag. According to Josh Slobin, marketing director, “The tags do not carry any information about the child. There is no data being transmitted that is potentially insecure.” Slobin later went on to say, "The information about the child resides on the software side of the system. There is no data being transmitted that is potentially insecure. That means no one could access the child's name or other personal information simply by using an RFID interrogator to capture the tag's data.”

The only thing that the bracelets will be able to tell is the correct address of the child. It will also give the child the ability to press a button and notify their parents if they need help.