RFID Security Company Offers K-12 RFID Alarm Badges

A company that develops radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies and products for healthcare and manufacturing has developed an alerting product specifically for K-12. Guard RFID Solutions has announced SafeGuard K-12 Safety System, which is intended to speed up communication in an emergency situation.
The system consists of badges equipped with RFID and management software. The latter can integrate the technology with on-site video to provide "live views" of a location from which an alarm originates and with access control systems that can lock down doors within specific school areas. The badges provide for "man down" detection, duress alarms, and bi-directional communications, which allows for coded signals to be sent to the badge (such as a code signaling that the alarm has been received by security people).