Can RFID Be Used in Churches to Thwart Theft?

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Ask The ExpertsCan RFID Be Used in Churches to Thwart Theft?
RFID Journal Staff asked 11 years ago

Is there any reason why this could not be accomplished to safeguard church assets?

—Name withheld

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It's a bit sad that we have come to the point where we have to protect items in churches from being stolen.

I guess you could set up a solution to constantly monitor items and then have that system sound an alarm in the event that an item were removed from the read field. A company called SimplyRFID offers an out-of-the-box system called NOX that allows a user to monitor items via RFID and a video camera. If an object is stolen, the user can search the video recording and determine what happened to it.

There are other ways to develop a solution that would help alert security if items were pilfered. A good systems integrator could put together a system, depending on the specific church's requirements.

—Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal

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