The hotel towel that you steal that are, possibly a RFID chip in it

By Amar toor posted Apr 20 2011 7: 44 AM
For many travelers more than petty crime is theft Hotel towels or bath robes. Hotels, on the other hand, it seems to take more seriously. So seriously designed, some have started embed specially in fact, just to RFID tags in their bed linen, we avoid it in our suitcases before you at the check-out counter "accidentally" filling. The chips, designed by Miami-based linen tracking technology, can wash up to 300 are able to withstand sewn directly towels, robes or bed linen, and reports according to cycles. When a selected item leaves always a hotel premises, the RFID chip is travel, an alarm the immediately alerting you staff, and to humiliate the guilty party. The system has already for a Honolulu hotel that says dividend payments that about 15,000 US dollars worth of bedding have saved since the adoption of the system last summer. But small crooks need not too paranoid. In addition to the hotel in Hawaii have just started their linen tagging two other facilities-in Manhattan and one in Miami. However anonymously, all three have stay (minimum) selected, so swipe at your own risk.

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