RFID в папках уголовных дел

Журналист Ким Та-Гю (Kim Tae-gyu) из www.koreatimes.co.kr пишет: в Южной Корее в 2007 году все папки уголовные дел будут помечены RFID-метками. На эти цели администрация готова израсходовать более 1 млн. долларов.

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``Three prosecutors’ offices will embrace the radio tag systems by November and a total of 1.25 million documents will be incorporated with radio tags,’’ Shin In-cheol, an official at the Seoul office, said.

``By late 2008 or early 2009, most major prosecutors’ offices will adopt the system in order to efficiently manage a mountain of files and pictures,’’ Shin said.

Presently, prosecutors keep and search past documents manually which causes trouble when a paper is misplaced.

``It does sometimes happen. It’s like searching for a needle at the bottom of the sea. However, with the new tag system things will be easy even when files go astray,’’ Shin said.

``The RFID system will save lots of time for storing and finding documents. I am sure the effects will outweigh the investment,’’ he said.

The RFID tag is a small integrated-circuit chip with a radio circuit and an identification code embedded into it that can be scanned with a reader.

In the future the tiny tags are likely to revolutionize daily lives by replacing the current barcodes found on products at retail stores.

Experts predict the cutting-edge technology will eventually be used in the livestock tracking, highway toll collection and premium product manufacturing.

Korea hopes to jump onto the RFID bandwagon under a project named the ubiquitous sensor network, a multi-pronged scheme to deploy the radio tags in a full-fledged manner by investing billions of dollars by 2010.