‘pioneering’ practice, perhaps, since more animals than people have been marked out for tracking until now.
Appropriately called Keeptrack, “it will have all the information from the time a child leaves for school to the time she goes back home. At regular intervals, parents will get SMS messages on their mobile phones about their children’s whereabouts,” says Dr Panchasheila Qadri, principal and administrator of Love Dale Central School.
At the school, Keeptrack serves as an identity card and helps keep a tab on the student’s attendance, academic performance and movements.
Dr Qadri said the system was affordable for all schools and a necessity for safety and security given the long distances children commute to school.
How it works: Students wear the RFID device around the neck. It is a card with a chip and a unique ID tag. A reader installed at the school records a student on arrival and passes on the data to a central computer from where messages are generated automatically and sent to parents!" ...source
