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Battling Cholera with NFC RFID-Tracked Drinking Water in Haiti

Water treatment kits are being provided to track chlorine levels in household drinking water using NFC-enabled cell phones

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Deep Springs International (DSI), a non-profit organization based in Pennsylvania, USA, and Nokia Research Center (NRC), Palo Alto, CA, are teaming up to ensure the supply of clean drinking water in Haiti with NFC technology. Water treatment kits are being provided to track chlorine levels in household drinking water using NFC-enabled cell phones. NRC provided the health workers with approximately 50 Nokia 6212 NFC-enabled phones while UPM RFID supplied UPM BullsEye NFC tags with NXP Mifare U...

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