RFID Student Monitoring

Thursday, 29 November, 2007

This is an interesting article from Doncaster about monitoring student movement using RFID chips embedded in school badges (I assume washable!). Clearly there are issues relating to surveillance that some are unhappy about and this has to be balanced against the increase in security of children.

Passive systems (i.e. no batteries) have a range of less than 1 m, which means you would need to install readers where ever monitoring was to occur (i.e. at an entrance to a classroom). Which of course means such a system is no different from taking a register in each classroom, except its digital and its automated. At this level it is not surveillance, but monitoring and is a good thing. It means automated processing can immediately flag when students have entered the school (registration) and then when they are missing from a scheduled class.

I think there’ll be plenty more where this is coming from!

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