RFID for Laptop Inventory Tracking?

An anonymous reader asks: "We are in the process of getting new laptops and I was wondering if anyone has used RFID for inventory control of them? Like many places laptops have had a way of going MIA. In an ideal world I would like to be able to get a 'real time' update of where the tags are located. I also would like to know when a RFID tag goes by a fixed location such as a door. What are people's experience both good and bad with RFID? Is this realistic? Where do I start? Had this been done with open-source?"

Comments

Why do you need the expense?

[Anonymous Coward]

Cliff just use barcodes and have people sign them in and out as they are taken.
Why should you care where they are as long as you know who is currently responsible for it.

best solution:

[rumpledstiltskin]

get a marauder's map for laptops.