September 13, 2004

SafeTzone Real-Time Locating System Keeps Kids Safe with RFID

RF Code and Texas Instruments have teamed to offer Wannado City, a role-playing theme park in Florida, a real-time human tracking system by employing RFID tags and readers.

From Yahoo! Finance:

Included in the general admission fee, each visitor receives a WannaFinder(TM) plastic wristband, a hybrid wireless bracelet which combines a Texas Instruments 23mm passive, low frequency transponder and an RF Code Mantis(TM) series active RFID tag.
The WannaFinder wristband communicates information, including a person's location, via radio signals to a series of TI and RF Code readers and makes the information accessible through the many WannaFinder touch screen kiosks situated throughout the park. RF Code's TAVIS(TM) data management software collects and consolidates data from the active RFID tags, while SafeTzone's patented Real-Time Location Module draws associations among the passive and active data to identify and locate each member of a group.

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