RFID: A Technical Overview and Its Application to the Enterprise
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RFID: The Next Serious Threat to Privacy
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Nowadays more children are getting lost and finally missing in a shopping complex. Many safety precautions have been taken by parents to ensure their child's safety. However it seems that these precautions are still inefficient in handling the problem. This paper proposes a system that utilizes RFID that can monitor the location of children within a shopping complex. In order to retrieve the location of a child, parents can locate their child either by using an interactive kiosk or their own mobile phone. RFID readers deployed at strategic locations in a shopping complex are used to detect and recognize the location. Parents can then retrieve their child's whereabouts by either sending texting messages to the system (SMS) and receive the location in the form of a 2D floor plan via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) or using the interactive kiosk available in the shopping complex. This system provides the parents with a clearer view on where to look for their missing child and eventually reduces the searching process and time. The proposed system provides a significant improvement from current methods used in handling cases of missing children within a shopping complex.