Is that your IPhone, or are you just happy to “read” me
Monday, October 11th, 2010 at
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While I understand your concerns about privacy, I wonder if the RFID tag is being used to search for skiers buried during avalanches, or simply lost on a remote trail. The technology is being used more and more in surgical sponges, to make sure they are not left behind after surgeons close up. Just a thought (which may be completely off base!).
Interesting post. Thanks.
Andy Barovick
Andrew, good question. In an avalanche situation the passive RFID chip signal in most cases would be refracted by the snow and rendered useless. Active RFID could be strong enough in some cases. This scenario would also require that the resort have an some type of RFID search system to find them. At this point there is no such system at a resort for RFID. Also, there maybe some legal issues in promoting RFiD as a Avalanche recovery system. Resort golf courses up here are not blowing horns to alert their players of threatening storms for fear of lawsuits if someone doesn’t hear the horn.
Personally I prefer to wear my BCA Tracker 2 if I am venturing to Avalanche prone areas.
In the case of passive systems there is RECCO, it uses a different system. From the RECCO website, “RECCO technology enables rapid directional pinpointing of a victim’s precise location using harmonic radar.“