Comments on: University of Wisconsin targets RFID to track rifles and handguns http://rfid24-7.com/rfidtalk/?p=107 The RFID 24-7 blog offers news and views on RFID, RTLS and sensor technology, and how it might impact you. Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:46:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joan Osleeb http://rfid24-7.com/rfidtalk/?p=107&cpage=1#comment-920 Joan Osleeb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:11:36 +0000 http://rfid24-7.com/rfidtalk/?p=107#comment-920 Just finished reading your article in RFID 24-7. Glad to hear about the explosive growth predicted –not surprising since I work for an RFID company?—RF Code. Agree that the technology will move beyond the banking data center—and, in some ways, not that far off—tracking assets in remote branches, which we’ll be doing for a major bank. Another area that active RFID is breaking new ground in is environmental monitoring within the data center. For example, “wire-free” active sensors are now monitoring temperature/humidity/the presence of water etc. to give real time status of such factors. As you probably know, heating and cooling costs are the biggest budget items in a data center, outpacing by far the cost of the equipment. As the classic approach to cooling (keep it cold, cold, cold) becomes too expensive to sustain, data centers are looking to reduce their energy costs by turning up the heat. Data centers are now struggling with how hot is too hot. Since you can’t measure what you can’t monitor, enter active RFID. Using the same real time ability to monitor assets, active environmental sensors monitor environmental conditions—in real time. Since active RFID-based tags/sensors can read say 10,000 to 12,200 square feet in a typical data center, data centers are finding using active RFID environmental monitoring throughout their facility is an extremely cost effective, easy way to provide the monitoring they need. (Plus, no wires, which traditional approaches use.) Just finished reading your article in RFID 24-7. Glad to hear about the explosive growth predicted –not surprising since I work for an RFID company?—RF Code. Agree that the technology will move beyond the banking data center—and, in some ways, not that far off—tracking assets in remote branches, which we’ll be doing for a major bank.

Another area that active RFID is breaking new ground in is environmental monitoring within the data center. For example, “wire-free” active sensors are now monitoring temperature/humidity/the presence of water etc. to give real time status of such factors. As you probably know, heating and cooling costs are the biggest budget items in a data center, outpacing by far the cost of the equipment. As the classic approach to cooling (keep it cold, cold, cold) becomes too expensive to sustain, data centers are looking to reduce their energy costs by turning up the heat. Data centers are now struggling with how hot is too hot.

Since you can’t measure what you can’t monitor, enter active RFID. Using the same real time ability to monitor assets, active environmental sensors monitor environmental conditions—in real time. Since active RFID-based tags/sensors can read say 10,000 to 12,200 square feet in a typical data center, data centers are finding using active RFID environmental monitoring throughout their facility is an extremely cost effective, easy way to provide the monitoring they need. (Plus, no wires, which traditional approaches use.)

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