The Art of RFID

Posted Feb 7th 2006 5:42PM by Brian White
Filed under: RFID, Applications, Business

Instead of using RFID to track high-dollar paintings - so Thomas Crown won't steal them - many artists are using RFID an a rather interesting way - to provide their masterpieces with a unique identity all their own. RFID without personal privacy implications - a great concept and a great use for the rather controversial public usage of RFID.

Say you visit an art gallery, any art gallery. You check out an RFID scanner, and as you peruse the incredible art pieces on display, your reader picks up the complete history of the piece (artist, conception history, techniques used, price, and other details) and displays it to you. You can print off this piece with a small snapshot of the actual painting when leaving the gallery for future perusal and use. Wow - this would be a boon to artists everywhere. Think sculptures, architectural museums, etc.

Leave it to the artists of the world to make RFID technology usage an "art form". Really inspiring.

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1. Wow! What a great idea. I always love it when people come up with creative ways to use current technology. Major props to the artists who are implementing this. Maybe this will help push RFID in a more positive light.

Posted at 12:25AM on Feb 8th 2006 by Anthony Graddy

2. I'm a big proponent of RFID. I don't see why RFID for this purpose is going to be better than Non RF ID. RFID by it's very nature is less directional. If you are walking around in a museum with a computer reader to give you in depth information, it seems that pointing an IR reader (instead of an RF reader) at an IR transmitter would be better, because you'd have a good idea that you were looking at the correct item. IT could be optimized by a simply flashlight or laser pointer to make sure you are pointing in the right general direction.

Consider that you've got two sculptures from ancient egypt of people. If they are 10 feet apart, but you are standing directly between them, the computer needs to know what you are looking at to tell you what the sculpture is. And giving you bad information may be more misleading than giving you no information.

Posted at 2:50PM on Feb 8th 2006 by William C Bonner

3. I just thought of the real use for RFID in the museum. First issue RFID tags to the patrons that walk around the museum. Then constantly pay attention to where those tags are while they are inside the museum. You can offer informattion to the patrons depending on how much time they spend near a particular exhibit.

This is a more traditional use of tagging, with all of the privacy issues that go along with it. It assumes the RFID reader is fixed, and the RFID tag is what moves around.

Posted at 3:08PM on Feb 8th 2006 by William C Bonner

4. That's Great, RFID Scanners are too good.
http://www.essenrfid.com/

Posted at 11:02PM on Aug 21st 2010 by Shrinivas

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