RFID for Laptop Inventory Tracking?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday June 16, 2004 @09:30PM from the knowing-where-your-hardware-is dept.

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?"

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Random points by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-17 00:04 · Score: 4, Informative

1. RFID can be readily defeated (e.g. with tinfoil, or by placing laptop in metallic container), it should not be viewed as a security mechanism.

2. The current model of IBM thinkpads have an integral RFID option (enabled via BIOS).