Traditionally, RFID use has been limited to two distinct areas – tracking and access control. A popular tool for tracking shipments and bulk orders, manufacturers and shippers put RFID chips in stored merchandise in order to make shipping and package movement more efficient and less wasteful. More secure RFID chips embedded in employee ID cards are helpful in ensuring access control in secure and sensitive work environments.
Now, RSI ID Technologies has developed a new form of RFID technology that merges the two most popular uses of this ever-growing technology. Their system, dubbed Pressiza, is marketed towards high-end retailers like jewelers and luxury department stores, and is an advanced anti theft system for cases with high-priced merchandise. Pressiza utilizes both tracking and access control RFID and ID cards to create a comprehensive tracking, security and inventory system. Here’s how it works: let’s say a high-end department store has installed Pressiza in their jewelry case. All items in the case have an RFID tag and identifying number, and all employees on duty have an employee ID card embedded with an RFID antenna. When a customer asks to see an item from the case, the employee uses their RFID card to open the case, removes the item in question, and then holds the item’s tag up to a reader to register that it has been removed. Pressiza’s software registers the item removed and connects it to the employee who opened the case.
This type of comprehensive tracking and access control is a great solution to the continual plague of retail theft, a crippling phenomenon which costs retailers billions in revenue each year. Pressiza’s tracking technology helps prevent both "external" (customer and outsider-based) and "internal" (employee-based) theft and could be a great addition to an existing video surveillance or guard system currently in place.
While specifically marketed towards jewelery stores and counters, an eyeglass solution is also available.
