Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Radio frequency tags used underground

The technology that takes money out of your wallet on toll roads and embarrasses you when the sales assistant forgets to deactivate the book you have just purchased is in use in a mine is Sweden to locate miners.

The tags can be set to raise an alarm if someone enters a restricted area, monitor the amount of time individuals spend on the job and in the worst case, locate trapped miners.

Click here for more details. the term RFID is short for Radio Frequency Identification Device.


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