RFID's

What do you think about RFIDs (Radio Frequency Identification) Tags? Here's a recent article about RFIDs in the garment industry. They're in use all over and there certainly is an aspect of privacy and lack thereof by the use of these - especially without the person's knowledge to gather information on them. Just think, you could have an RFID tag placed in your clothing and every time you enter a certain store, you could be tracked. A wealth of information - say an owner of a Gap store wants to know how many shoppers are "return customers" all they would have to do is turn the system on. It would tell you what they are wearing when they enter the store - you could probably even deduce the age of the garment and number of wash cycles it has been through.


My idea has been to implant an RFID tag inside every property corner cap that surveyors place to monument a property corner. Over time, all you would need is a special RFID reader on your survey equipment and it could interface the monument to a state registry of surveyor corners. You could instantly know the plat/document the point is associated with, who set it, when it was set, the coordinate value information. You could help determine if the point is authentic or was reset by another surveyor. The technology is already here - it will just take some forward thinking by the industry and state boards to enact a statewide system and registry. I could guess there would be a lot of push back by some in surveying, but it seems to me that a comprehensive monumentation RFID database will be the wave of the future.