Re: RFID tracking and gumstix

Hi Jon

came across this company website today.

http://www.habitresearch.com/


This may be a solution for you. Not (yet) based on gumstix, though.


Don
gumstix, inc.
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At 10:45 PM -0400 7/11/05, Doug Sutherland wrote:
>Jon,
>
>Is there a question here? Passive RFID requires very close contact to work
>(like those touch to pay keychain things), and active RFID requires power
>on the tag to work (like on automobiles for toll pass). Not sure how viable
>this is for your application, but I suggest posting the RFID questions on
>an RFID diacussion forum.
>
>I have a small RFID reader module here, it can connect to any host with a
>simple serial interface. Getting the antenna part right is tricky though.
>As for gumstix, consider it a general purpose processor, you could use the
>gumstix/etherstix/breakout-gs -> UART to RFID reader module, a hub, and a
>PC for data collection. The RFID interface could also be done with lower
>end MCU with ethernet or rs485 multidrop serial.
>
> -- Doug
>
>PS. You want to put RFID tags IN the primates? I don't like that idea :(
>
>
>
>Jon Thompson wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I emailed gumstix this, and someone replied, telling me that I should  ask 
>>around this list.
>>
>>>We're looking for a tracking system that we can embed in rooms, and  on the 
>>>grounds (200 acres) to track our apes (both primate and  humans) as they 
>>>move about the facility. When I heard about the  size of your devices, it 
>>>occurred to me that it would be very cool  to have these embedded in the 
>>>ground with some sort of RFID sensor,  with an RFID chip inserted in the 
>>>apes, or in a card of some sort  for the humans.
>>>
>>>We could then have other devices with gumstix that could also  interact with 
>>>our gumnet, robots such as cars, video camera devices  that could stream to 
>>>a server, and of course the keyboards that  Kanzi and Panbanisha (two of our 
>>>apes) use so well.
>>
>>
>
>
>
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