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Media Relations

RFID’s off to the races

Forbes.com
May 12

By Robert Malone

NEW YORK -- It is hard to predict where radio frequency identification technology will emerge next. Some fear it will follow their toothpaste purchases home to their bathrooms. But it might be better used to follow bicycle racers. Actually, it has. RFID emerged in a new guise at the Little Indy 500 in the Bill Armstrong Stadium of Indiana University. A student project organized by the IU's School of Informatics used RFID tagging to follow specified teams of contenders. Unlike RFID use at races like the Boston Marathon, where hitting a mat at the finish triggers a signal from a tag on the shoe, the Indy 500 application was attached to helmets so data on individual riders could be read in an instant.

Read this story at: http://www.forbes.com/logistics/2006/05/11/rfid-little-indy-bike-race-cx_rm_0512rfid.html

Learn more about the School of Informatics at: http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/

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