West Cheshire College, England, UK, uses RFID to track up to 20,000 students? – and not a mention on their website? – the US company who has sold them the technology uses our UK school to promote their RFID technology.
With the school’s Building Services Manager travelling all the way to Orlando, Florida to promote/advertise the system:
“The college opted to deploy Zebra’s UWB tags and reader infrastructure because they provided reliable and more accurate location data—and at less cost compared with a Wi-Fi-based system—Kevin Francis, West Cheshire College’s building services area manager, told attendees at RFID Journal LIVE! 2012, held last month in Orlando, Fla.”
(Nice perk of the job there Kevin)
Kevin Francis, West Cheshire College’s Building Services Area Manager
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/view/9476/2
[NB. This RFID Journal article was withdrawn from the RFID Journal’s website w/c 7 Jan 2013 – The same month the college refused to answer Freedom of Information request on how consent was gained from the students.
A copy of the article (pdf) is here and here is the original article on the Internet Archieve Wayback Machine]
Against RFID in schools 