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India sends SMS to parents on their child's whereabouts

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Greenfingers Global School, a co-educational English medium school in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, has installed RFID technology on school grounds to record attendance and monitor student whereabouts, according to a New Delhi Television report.

The school’s 850 students will wear RFID-embedded ID cards, which are captured by installed RFID readers and antenna. Once transmitted to the school’s database, the system can send bulk SMS messages to parents regarding their child’s current whereabouts.

This technology will also assist teachers by removing the manual process of recording attendance. With RFID, the attendance will be recorded before the teacher even enters the classroom.

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