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RSSRFID: It's Not For The Birds … Yet By Bert Moore, AIM Global
February 1, 2007
•Article: RFID Tracks Migration
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Those with a long history in the AIDC industry might remember "Buzz," the bar coded bee. Researchers affixed special, very small bar code symbols to bees to track their exit and entry to hives. Back in the mid-80s, researchers had called the AIM office to inquire about the possibility of using RFID to track the bees but, at the time, even the smallest transponders were too heavy to allow the bees to fly -- and that would rather have defeated the purpose of the study.
Today, however, it's a different world. "Buzz" now has some thoroughly modern cousins that are being tracked with, yes, RFID. But that's not the most important part of the story.
Researchers in Germany have affixed RFID chips to worker wasps to track their "migration" among different nests. The use of RFID for this application shows, among other things, the progress that has been made in RFID technology.
More importantly, it shows that ideas that might have seemed impossible in the past might just be practical now or in the near future.
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