Better Wardrobe Management - Thanks to RFID

Imagine hunting for a dress that you desperately want to wear for that Business dinner. As luck would have it you cant seem to remember where you put it after your last use. Is it drying on the line or has it been stacked away along with your clothes for dry cleaning or is it in a corner somewhere waiting for a wash? Tempers are going to flare up and you are worried sick you are going to be late.

Enter RFID to your Rescue! Fujitsu of Japan have developed a RFID tag that can now not only transmit and be used for identifying process but can also be washed, dried and ironed and pressed without affecting its performance. It only seems logical to have these tags attached to your clothes to assist you in quicker tracking. In the years to come surely every household will have RFID scanners located in various important places. With such tags embedded into your clothes tracking your wardrobe components will be a lot easier within the house.

At present these new RFID tags developed by Fujitsu are being used primarily at the launderers to track the sheets in a basket containing a whole pile of them. According to Midori Taniyama of Fujitsu’s RFID Systems Department, "Fujitsu will promote the system to any organization that handles a large amount of textile goods, such as hospitals, hotels, commercial laundry services or leisure facilities". These tags that close approximately a little over $1.80 is likely to come down in price once this becomes more popular in the market.

Predictably among the various uses that RFID tags are put to, this is one area where the acceptance of the technology will be complete and fastest owing to the fact that unlike other areas there isn't the fear of privacy being compromised in this case. If remote scanners are used to hack into these tags, I wonder what will be read from a distance - How sweat soaked the tag was before the wash? Now, what goes on under your clothes is surely something any deodorant manufacturers might be interested in knowing.