RFID Taser Bracelets: The anti-hijacking device

Filed in archive Implementation on August 7, 2008

You are on a long flight and doze off since you have started to feel tired sitting in your seat for so many hours. Suddenly you are woken by a loud noise and you come to know that the flight has been hijacked by some terrorists threatening to blow up the airplane if their demands are not but you remain unfazed by the hijack drama and so do other passengers.

The hijacker seems shocked by the reaction of the fellow passengers and by the time he can realize what is the reason behind it he gets immobilized by a taser shock and within the next few hours he finds himself behind the bars.

This is what RFID Taser bracelets are expected to accomplish if they see the light of the day. An exchange of letters between Lamperd Less Lethal and Department of Homeland Security talks about feasibility of RFID Taser Bracelets which when put to use could generate taser shocks of up to 200,000 volts.

These bracelets will adopt the Electro Muscular Disruption (EMD) technology and besides ensuring the safety of passengers on board would act as a boarding pass storing personal information regarding the traveler apart from ability to monitor passengers and their luggage.

Some may feel it as a trouble but if you go back and remember the 9/11 tragedy you would certainly say a yes to it.