The wonders of RFID technology: Data enabled security gates
Recently the library upgraded to RFID gates supplied by Bibliotheca. It was a long overdue change, the old RF gates had stopped working properly a long time ago and were actually designed for retail. After a few tweaks the new gates have been working well. However when the gate alarm is triggered by a student I still have the old habit of calling them back and asking "have you got any library books?" What I forget to do is look at the screen on my PC and see which book has set off the alarm since the gates are data enabled. (If it's not one of our books it will just say "unknown.)" This is great technology and makes my job easier. Plus they light up like a disco with the red LED lighting around them when triggered which looks cool.