The frightful memory of last year’s Hurricane Katrina is still fresh among the Americans who lost their friends, relatives and family members in the disaster. The Bush administration sought assistance from every source for the rescue and rehabilitation operations.
The RFID chipmaker VeriChip Corporation provided its VeriTrace System for identifying, tracking and accounting for the remains of victims. The system worked exceptionally well.
Now, the highly reliable tracking system is in use in the state of Florida, through the Florida Emergency Mortuary Operations Response System (FEMORS) and the State of Hawaii Department of Health.
This system consists of a implantable RFID microchip, a VeriTrace Bluetooth handheld reader, a customized Ricoh Caplio Pro G3 Digital Camera capable of receiving both RFID scanned data and GPS data wirelessly, and a Web-enabled database for gathering and storing information and images captured during emergency response operations.
