More expensive scanners have ranges of over 100 yards. Check out this long-range RFID system for upscale homes, where you can equip your kids, dogs and servants with their own tags:
Unlimited Applications!
Powered by Wavetrend, Customized for iAutomate.com and home automation applications, the HA Edition R500 Long Range RFID Reader is used in conjunction with HomeSeer Software or Crestron Systems (Sold Separately) and is specifically designed for detection (or absence) of people, vehicles, and personal assets. The R500 RFID Reader provides near field or long range coverage for real-time detection of people, pets, vehicles or anything else you can identify with one of the various T Series RFID tags.
The R500 Reader communicates with:Additional readers can be daisy chained to permit many readers on one CAT5 wire system. Each reader is range settable via software to adjust for the requirements of the room or application. Range adjustable antennas can be discretely hidden in walls, ceilings, and doorways to identify and track tag activity. The R500HA can simultaneously read multiple RFID tags at ranges of up to 450 feet, and can also register and report the disappearance or unauthorized movement of individual RFID tags. This model is for use ONLY with The MIRACLE 5104 RFID Controller, Crestron systems or HomeSeer v1.7 or later. A FREE HomeSeer plug-in or FREE Crestron software modules are included with the Installer Setup Kit.
- The MIRACLE 5104 RFID Controller ("Speaks" to any device or software capable of responding to Custom ASCII stings) on a Serial Port or LAN
- A PC via a standard COM Port Running HomeSeer Software
- Serial Port of a Crestron System
With (Purchased Separately), you can:
- Control the lights, HVAC, garage door or security system when your car approaches or leaves your home.
- Detect if vehicle is in the garage.
- Detect a person entering or leaving a room or area.
- Arm or Disarm Security by individual tag.
- Automatically open a "pet" door when your pet approaches the door.
- Control, Lights, Music, and Temperature based upon the presence or absence of a tag - watch your friends be amazed at the total comfort you have in your home when your environment follows you from room to room!
- Track the location of domestic help or children by logging in to your HomeSeer system from anywhere in the world.
- Get notified by email or phone* when a child gets home from school.
- Use an alarm tag with loved ones needing assistance and provide them with both the means of alerting you when they are in trouble and for you to monitor them for normal, uninhibited activity.
- Inhibit Video, Audio or other controls if a tag is not present.
- Track physical assets and perform notification if one is "removed" from an area.
- Get notified if pets wander outside of a given range.
- Sound an alert when kids wander outside of a given range or wander near hazards such as swimming pools and streets.
- Get reminders to take out the trash if the garbage can is still detected at the house on garbage night.
- And Much Much More
“More expensive scanners have ranges of over 100 yards.”
Yes, but the tags are the size of a small wristwatch. Not the same thing as the tags they put on drivers licenses.