RFID Journal reports on the Belleville Public School District’s use of RFID to track students and faculty in the school and on buses as part of a security effort aimed at preventing a tragedy such as that in Newtown, CT, last year. According to the report, the badges will come equipped with buttons to alert authorities to an emergency and will typically be set to “beacon” their ID numbers every 28 seconds to be captured by one of the 190 RFID readers in the school or installed on each of its 21 buses. The system may also be used to eliminate attendance-taking in class or “identify if the same individuals were repeatedly visiting the bathrooms simultaneously, possibly suggesting a drug-use or fighting issue.” Schools in Texas and New York are considering similar systems.
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