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This story doesn't quite make sense. I believe that his RSA pass was clonable and that his towel also had an RFID chip embedded in it. What I find hard to believe is that the towel had a writable RFID tag. My main experience with RFID is cloning tags onto T5557 chips, and I don't think I've ever come across a writable tag in the wild. It doesn't seem to make economic sense to spend an extra penny or two on every towe…
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
This story doesn't quite make sense. I believe that his RSA pass was clonable and that his towel also had an RFID chip embedded in it. What I find hard to believe is that the towel had a writable RFID tag. My main experience with RFID is cloning tags onto T5557 chips, and I don't think I've ever come across a writable tag in the wild. It doesn't seem to make economic sense to spend an extra penny or two on every towe…
I recently was at a Panera Bread, and when I put my Android phone (with NFC) onto the table, it immediately helpfully popped open tagwriter. Turns out they didnt lock the tables' tags, so you could write urls and when people placed their phones down, had those urls open. (they used the tags for their food pager system)
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
alta ski area uses rfid intelligently -- embedded in lift tickets to forego scanning bottlenecks.
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
One interesting use: https://vimeo.com/157990864 This library lets visitors rearrange the books organically (if you pull out multiple books on a topic, you're encouraged to put them back on the shelf together instead of finding their old homes). The books are tracked with RFID so that they remain easy to find individually.
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
I'm prototyping an IoT system that will use RFID tags to track inventory as it moves around an area. The system will provide live updates on location. Imagine knowing exactly where things are at all times through a simple dashboard. Nothing super amazing, but not boring. :)
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
I'm prototyping an IoT system that will use RFID tags to track inventory as it moves around an area. The system will provide live updates on location. Imagine knowing exactly where things are at all times through a simple dashboard. Nothing super amazing, but not boring. :)
RFID is one of those things that seem cool until you start playing with it and then it turns out that the only uses for it are really boring. Like, you can't use it to locate stuff because the range is too short; you can't rely on stuff to have chips (food, or clothes or whatever) and it's a major time sink if you'd have to start tagging stuff yourself; it's cumbersome to install readers everywhere and not being able…
I'm prototyping an IoT system that will use RFID tags to track inventory as it moves around an area. The system will provide live updates on location. Imagine knowing exactly where things are at all times through a simple dashboard. Nothing super amazing, but not boring. :)
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I'm prototyping an IoT system that will use RFID tags to track inventory as it moves around an area. The system will provide live updates on location. Imagine knowing exactly where things are at all times through a simple dashboard. Nothing super amazing, but not boring. :)
Hey man, I'm fascinated with the RFID space and would love to learn more about what you're building. Got a website?
Btw, I went to the demo of enerscore (which looks pretty interesting) and it wasn't working for me. I'm on Firefox last build and OSX if that helps. :)
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If you carry a proximity card in your rear pocket, that's pretty much the same thing except that there's no surgery and it's easy to swap out or discard when no longer useful. Source: the door-opening sensors at my college, many years ago, were all located at the right height for a key in the back pocket to activate them. I referred to it as the "buttprint identification system".
But it is of critical importance to have the sensors located at the right height! At my school, I had to jump up quite a bit (and I am 6' tall) to get them to read the card. In many installations of both hardware and software, the actual usage of the system is quite different from what was imagined by the designers. Prox card installers imagine people holding up cards on lanyards. They mandate it not be carried in a…