A Japanese company called Secom has released the "SECOM School Security," a system which monitors kids using RFID tags while they are commuting to and from school but also uses robots (the good old smoking robots) that move around and monitor school properties. The robots can also "scare" suspicious people by fast movements, light and smoke.Secom includes surveillance cameras and metal detectors installed at school gates. RFID tags are attached to the Secom Terminals (carried by kids) which will be read at school gates and elesewhere. Parents receive status of kid's commute on their cell phones. KoKo Secom terminals also has a GPS functionality that track kids' whereabouts outside school properties.
Click on the “video” link to see one of the robots in action. Pretty scary watching students being intimidated. Hope we never see anything like this in our country. The civil liberties folks would be all over this one!
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