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Tomorrow - in Sweden, thousands of people have replaced their ID cards or entry cards to the workplace, with a small chip implanted under the skin, to make their lives easier, as there is no need to carry their IDs or entry cards to their offices or gyms, anymore. Simply imagine that you come in the morning to work To stand in front of your locked office door and not need to search long in your pockets or bag for the office key!! It is enough for you to raise your hand to the sensor to open the door automatically.
This technology is simply by implanting a small chip under the skin in the area between the index finger and thumb, and stores the employee’s data on it, which is transmitted by a reading device at the office door. The Swedish capital, Stockholm.
About this, says Magnus Hotenbrend, one of the company employees who had such a chip implanted in his hand a year and a half ago: “It's really surprising. I can open my locker in the office with the motion of one hand, and I pay for lunch in the company's restaurant there, too. I can also quickly unlock my bike by just putting my hand on it.” The slice is the size of a grain of rice and is grown by injection in a very easy process. Describing how he felt after the implant was implanted, Hotenbrend adds: “It was nothing more than a punctured earlobe. And soon the pain disappears in a few seconds.” He explains that he does not feel the presence of any foreign body in his hand. Hotenbernd is not the only one in Sweden who has implanted the microchip in his hand. In this context, Jovan Osterlund of Biohax, which supplied Toei with this chip, explains: “We estimate that about five thousand People in Sweden are now using this technology.” In the four TUI branches in northern European countries alone, 115 out of 500 employees chose to get this chip. For Österlund, this is only the beginning. It is expected that half of the technology users will have it in the future.
"The chip is nothing more than an identity card, the user himself decides what information is stored on it," he says. Programming is done via a smartphone. Passwords, codes, keyboards, and codes may be a thing of the past. "The potential uses for this implant are unlimited," says Osterlund. According to the Swedish expert, many companies in Europe, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Australia and Indonesia are showing interest in this technology. In the field of security, i.e. access to buildings, computers or other closed systems, the chip offers good solutions. In addition, it can be of great help in the medical field. “Imagine you have a weak heart and you lose consciousness on the street, the paramedics can read all the information they need on the slide.”
Swedish Railways also found the new technology intriguing and allowed 2,500 customers who already had it to take advantage of the chip to use as a ticket. But after two years the experiment was stopped. "The technology didn't work smoothly," explains Stefan Ray of Swedish Railways, and we decided not to pursue it because we believe there won't be any tickets in a few years anyway.
Österlund does not see the chip implanted in the hand as becoming a means of payment in the near future. “This can only be achieved when commerce is able to guarantee the reliability of this payment method.” But despite the versatility of this chip, it still faces the fears of skeptics about its security at a time when electronic and digital system breaches and data theft abound.