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Let's take a library for example. At some point, somebody found that it would be a great idea to insert a bar code into the sleeve of every book. The advantages?
A little later, RFID tags were also inserted in random locations within the books to improve loss and theft prevention. This is what causes the scanners at the front of a store to start beeping when you walk through the door without paying for your shopping.
But when you look at the advantages mentioned ,which may save the library the cost of a book here and there, how were these systems marketed to libraries that hold millions and millions of books? Implementing such systems require the library to pay someone to put tags and bar codes onto each and every single book.
Another thing to consider is the cost of each and every RFID tag which is at about $0.75. And in a library with about 4 million books, that is quite a cost to pay. It could take years for someone to steal enough books to create a loss surpassing the a quarter the cost of the implementation of such a system.
Our company is currently working on a product for a client library that would reduce their running costs and man-power required to perform a similar repetitive task. It would utilize these tags that library's have already spent so much on to make the costs of their upgrades worthwhile.
Stay tuned to our 'Prototypes' page and you may get the chance to try out our system as part of our product development and improvement study. We'd also be happy to hear any comments or views on the implementation of new library systems.
- Checking a book in and out of the library database takes seconds, no stamping is required.
- Keying in long book numbers or ISBN codes can be avoided.
- It's paperless. The stamp sheet's in the book sleeves no longer need to be replaced.
A little later, RFID tags were also inserted in random locations within the books to improve loss and theft prevention. This is what causes the scanners at the front of a store to start beeping when you walk through the door without paying for your shopping.
But when you look at the advantages mentioned ,which may save the library the cost of a book here and there, how were these systems marketed to libraries that hold millions and millions of books? Implementing such systems require the library to pay someone to put tags and bar codes onto each and every single book.
Another thing to consider is the cost of each and every RFID tag which is at about $0.75. And in a library with about 4 million books, that is quite a cost to pay. It could take years for someone to steal enough books to create a loss surpassing the a quarter the cost of the implementation of such a system.
Our company is currently working on a product for a client library that would reduce their running costs and man-power required to perform a similar repetitive task. It would utilize these tags that library's have already spent so much on to make the costs of their upgrades worthwhile.
Stay tuned to our 'Prototypes' page and you may get the chance to try out our system as part of our product development and improvement study. We'd also be happy to hear any comments or views on the implementation of new library systems.
Wow, man you're serious! lol
ReplyDeleteHi...im student at limkokwing uni in malaysia. I work at our library for upggrades and we had many thousand of books like you have mentioned and they get 7 of us to tag books full time for 2 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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