Rfid benefits of RFID

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China will tag all of its 163 captive pandas in an effort to better monitor the population and prevent inbreeding, Xinhua news agency has announced. According to an unnamed State Forestry Administration official: "Information about pedigree, age and other basic data will be permanently incorporated into the giant pandas by ways of molecular labeling or hypodermic implantation of sensing chips."<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/24/china_tags_pandas1/ Pipe Diagnosis Obayashi Corp. developed a system for diagnosing drain pipes by running off water that contains ball-shaped RFID tags. The system can be used to check problems with pipe connections etc. «Helping visually-impaired people using RFIDAn RFID-based system for helping visually-impaired people is being tested at Aichi Expo in Nagoya, Japan. This is another experiment by the goverment and YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory. There is a movie clip with the interview of a visually-impared person who used the system. His comments are rather critical and suggest the need of other auditory information besides RFID-triggered voice messages.