Tagged Planet - Wed May 16, 2007

This is a summary of recent RFID and biometrics news.

RFID Posters
RFID in Japan has pictures of RFID posters deployed at a Japanese subway station. Information from the posters are transferred to cell phones when activated by an RFID-enabled rider ticket.

Thwart Exam Cheaters
RFID is being employed by a student exam board, Edexcel, in the UK to stop cheating. This will be accomplished by tagging packets of exams. Since authentic exam packets will have tags, it becomes more difficult to produce fakes, which are often sold to students.

Sirit Gets Transponder Contract
Sirit Inc., an RFID technology vendor based in Canada, has received a year-long contract worth nearly US$5M from BATA (Bay Area Toll Authority) in California, for toll road transponders. An additional contract of $1.6M might also be granted afterwards.

Toll roads are just one type of RFID traffic application.

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