Washable RFID Tag

Filed in archive Misc on September 8, 2011

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Many guests at luxury hotels try to justify spending big bucks on their room by stuffing their suitcase with as many "souvenirs" as possible, including things like towels, bathrobes and slippers. Hotels are now fighting back with a new technological weapon in the form of the washable RFID tag.

These chips, created by Linen Technology Tracking, are being sewn into anything made of cloth inside of a hotel room. So if you try to take off with the towels, a sensor will go off to alert the hotel immediately. So far, three hotels in Honolulu, Miami and Manhattan are testing the technology, but Linen Technology Tracking refuses to reveal the names of the hotels. The unnamed Honolulu hotel is reporting great success with the RFID-embedded towels, saying that theft is down form 4,000 to 750 towels in just one month.