Approximately 100 schools have adopted the RagTagd system since the company launched two years ago, enabling parents to receive a text message if their child’s garment is left behind in a school’s lost-and-found area.
Feb 05, 2018— A group of entrepreneurs in Australia have launched a solution that helps parents of school children track their uniforms, at a cost of just $1.50 extra per item. The company, known as RagTagd, sells its product by the same name. The RagTagd solution consists simply of a passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID-enabled lost property-collections box placed in a school’s lost-and-found areas, as well as a tag attached to uniforms. The software on RagTagd’s server tracks the items inside the box on a daily basis, then sends parents a text message.
The plug-in box consists of a reader built by the company, with a Jadak ThingMagic module and a 3G transmitter. It can’t get much simpler, says company co-founder Eugene Holdenson, a former college student who launched the company with fellow co-founder Chloe Blattmann. Neither founder had any background in RFID technology, and both were around 23 years old at the time of the firm’s launch in 2015. That, he says, may be the solution’s beauty—the founders simply identified a problem and tinkered with a reader and tags until they worked.
Source: RFID Helps Parents Find Lost School Uniforms – 2018-02-05 – Page 1 – RFID Journal