- From: Yrjana Rankka <ghard@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:46:44 +0200
- To: public-lod@w3.org
On 6/20/11 14:01 , Danny Ayers wrote: > On 19 June 2011 20:42, Henry Story<henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote: > >> Ok. So you need to give each of your dogs and cats a webid enabled RDFID chip > To inject a little reality: Sashapooch has got an embedded RFID (not > yet RDFID!) tag, not sure but I think it became Italian law. > Basilhound being a bit older, before this stuff came in, has a > (sloppy) tattoo on his tummy, something like LOLU51. I assume the chip > in Sasha has a similar string in it. > > But the idea is great - in the same way QR codes are most useful when > they include a URL, putting one in the RFID tag of animals makes a lot > of sense. Simple use case: when the critter wanders off, you can > easily contact the "owner". > > I know the RFID chips are now really cheap commodities, what I don't > know about is the scanners - are they yet affordable enough that you > could say include one in a mobile phone? Danny, At least one of my phones (the Nexus S) has one, though not very useful yet; It does react to Dutch public transport chip cards and my Finnish passport with "Unknown tag type." Yrjänä > Cheers, > Danny. > > -- Mr. Yrjana Rankka | ghard@openlinksw.com Developer, Virtuoso Team | http://www.openlinksw.com | Making Technology Work For You
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