RFID and Household Inventory

Just around tax time each year we start thinking about all things money. Taking inventory of all belongings for net worth purposes also has the side benefit of making sure insurance policies are adequate to cover replacement should, God forbid, something happen to decimate a house.

While Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been around for a little while it took a Wal-Mart mandate to its suppliers to get the volume necessary to bring per cost down. Each tag uses an Electronic Product Code (EPC) to identify the product which can then be scanned to track, locate, etc.

Wouldn't it be interesting to purchase individual tags for products that you own and stick them on household items? Then with a few waves of a scanner your household inventory database is built. Using a service to retrieve average cost by product id your replacement value is easily calculated along with a listing of all items owned. You'd be most grateful for that if you ever had to produce a list of belongings.

If your company has a place to order individual RFID tags by product and has a pricing retrieval service - we would like to know. Quickly. Inventory day is fast approaching and we can't find our old list.