Employees used to form a line at Wells Fargo Bank's Roseville, Calif., data center at the end of each workday, as they waited to present their laptops to a security guard, who would check each serial number against a list linking the laptop to a specific person's name.
In 2007, Mike Russo, senior vice president of automated identification technologies, decided to try to speed up that security process and test the value of radio frequency identification technology. "We put an RFID tag on the laptop and a picture of the individual in the database," he says, "so all the user has to do is pass the laptop over the RFID scanner and a picture of them shows up on the security guard's screen."
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