Precision Dynamics Corp., an automatic-identification wristband system provider based in California, has developped the AgeBand to verify that an ID card is not expired or counterfeit, while their software prints the ID information onto a wristband.

The main purpose of the system is to check up a customer’s age. But by adding an RFID chip in the wristband, the system can be used for a variety of functions such as tracking customer purchases and serving as an e-wallet.

The customer has to present some official ID document at the entrance of an event or business. The system analyzes the encoded data in mag stripes and two-dimensional bar codes on U.S. and Canada government-issued IDs to attest to validity of the content and format. The AgeBand system then prints the customer’s name, the words “Age ID Verified 21” and other information from the ID onto a plastic wristband that can’t be removed without being damaged or destroyed.

The RFID chip version of the AgeBand can be used for many other functions. It can be linked to the customer’s credit card number or a cash deposit to pay for purchases. In a bar, for example, the bartender could use a handheld RFID reader to scan the tag of a client who had ordered a drink and apply the charge to the credit card or cash deposit.

Business owners can write data to the wristband’s embedded RFID tag so that they can track customers purchases and control their spendings. For example, at a sporting event, the wristband could allow each person a set number of drinks from the bar before they are cut off.

The company adds that “It’s also an easy way to track statistics for marketing.” “And it’s an easy way to collect demographic information.”

From The RFID Journal.