Chicken Tracking with QB
Here's my latest cause for Quick Base celebration: A while back I made a Quick Base app for tracking my flock of chickens and supply inventory, but just incorporated RFID scanning to help move towa...
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Hi Steve,
years ago I was very heavily involved with RFID and one of the leading RFID vendors that I worked with was Alien Technology. I used both their readers and tags and was able to read tags from a few feet away from the readers. We would place 2 antennas at a doorway and be able to read tagged items with no problem at all. The tags were passive tags so as you mentioned inexpensive and do not require anything but an antenna. I'm sure their products are even better today than they were years ago so they may be worth taking a look at
back then I used the "squiggle" tag https://www.alientechnology.com/products/tags/squiggle/
and here are some readers: https://www.alientechnology.com/products/readers/
very cool use case for sure
Keith
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Keith Jusas
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years ago I was very heavily involved with RFID and one of the leading RFID vendors that I worked with was Alien Technology. I used both their readers and tags and was able to read tags from a few feet away from the readers. We would place 2 antennas at a doorway and be able to read tagged items with no problem at all. The tags were passive tags so as you mentioned inexpensive and do not require anything but an antenna. I'm sure their products are even better today than they were years ago so they may be worth taking a look at
back then I used the "squiggle" tag https://www.alientechnology.com/products/tags/squiggle/
and here are some readers: https://www.alientechnology.com/products/readers/
very cool use case for sure
Keith
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Keith Jusas
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- Hi Keith, thanks for the tip! I'm definitely going to look into those links. Do you mind if I ask what you used your readers for? Since starting this project, I've had a lot of other ideas for things to track location and inventory of around here that could be useful, especially if I could get a couple-foot range read out of them!
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Steve Davidson
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