Can a Hotel Use RFID to Monitor the Items Within Its Rooms?

Could the technology help us to protect our pillows, paintings and other assets against theft?

—Rocco

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Rocco,

You can certainly use radio frequency identification to track all of your hotel room assets. There are systems on the market specifically designed to track towels and bed linens.

Here are some articles that you might find useful:

• Linentracker Automates Management of Towels, Sheets

• Positek RFID Offering UHF System for Tracking Linens, Textiles

• Linen Loss Drops By 90 Percent at Los Angeles Luxury Hotel

• RFID Captures Each Time Guests Throw in the Towel

I hope the above articles prove helpful.

—Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal