Student Targets School Safety With RFID Innovation

A Walled Lake Western High School student earned a hackathon award for his RFID-based solution that locates ID badges in order to identify where students are in the event of an emergency. Michigan high school student, Yousef El-Chafei, has leveraged his own technical know-how, along with some RFID experience from his father, to develop a passive UHF system aimed at improving safety and efficiency at schools. The system he developed uses ClearStream RFID software from Portable Technology Solutions (PTS) to track students or faculty members in schools, in order to provide visibility during an emergency, such as a school shooting.  Read the full story at RFID Journal News