A team of Indian-American scientists has developed a smart tracking system, which could very

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well provide an honourable alternative to the radio tags that were recently tied to the ankles of some Indian students whose California-based university was shut down on charges of visa fraud.

"We want technology to be natural and unobtrusive. We don't want you to carry around an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag and we don't want cameras everywhere. We want technology to be assistive and not become Big Brother," said Bharat Jayaraman, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Buffalo, who led the team that developed the new system.

The new smart tracking system can track people's whereabouts without the use of invasive technologies, such as constant filming or RFID tags.