Rodent Regatta

We were working with a couple of companies in the supply chains to two of the largest retailers in the USA. As large retailers they can be large pains unless you commit up front to the resources, time and patience required to comply with their demands.

It is only a matter of time before RFID capabilities become part of the process. Here’s a scenario showing where RFID could be headed:

Here’s another scenario: You’re going on vacation in Las Vegas, and while you’re in that same mall, you buy a book on card counting. Unbeknownst to you, it, too, has an RFID tag impressed into the binding. RFID tags along with their antenna are already part of paper labels attached to shipping containers. It is no stretch to think how unobtrusive they might yet become.

Now as you enter the hotel/casino, an unobtrusive RFID reader tells management that you have in your possession a book on counting cards. The book has a unique serial number associated not with your credit card—that would be illegal—but with a customer ID, name, and address. The casino, in turn, subscribes to a service, maybe from Amazon, with a database of every book in print.

In a world of zero latency, as you passed through the doors, your photo was also taken and now it is distributed to every casino on the strip, so that every time you try to enter a casino, your image is matched to the database as a possible card counter, and two guys with closely cropped hair and tight-fitting sports jackets politely ask you to leave.

RFID may give ”Tag, you’re it!” a whole new meaning
Ephraim Schwartz