Hello. I am trying to set up a simple alarm system to alert customer that they are still wearing our RFID armbands. These are time keeping armbands for a trampoline park. All it needs to do is sound an alarm and a sign alerting them to return to the front counter. I understand how RFID work, the reader, antenna, etc, but I have never set one up before. I have looked at commercial systems and they will cost more than the wristbands!! I think the M6E paired with the right antenna would be a good direction, but I would like to get some feedback. Read range is 10-20 feet and the wristbands are Class 1 gen2
How do you intend to alert the customer? Are they required to check in (scan their tags) periodically?
This is more accidental walking off/theft prevention of the wristbands. The antennas will be around the exit and my hope was that I could playing a sound or recoding to return to the front desk and a visual indicator - strobe maybe. My hope is that this will be used infrequently as the wristbands are supposed to be removed when they indicate that their jump time is over - they go from blue to red. the wristbands are written to at the front des and they have to be removed with a magnet key.
Thanks for the response
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That shouldn’t too difficult, just have the alarm set so that any tag sets it off and put the antenna by the exit.
You might have a few false positives but those shouldn’t be too hard to deal with.
Gets more difficult if you want to alert on your tags only, you’d need to connect the reader to a database of known tags then but i don’t think you will need to go that far in the near future.
Another option would be to charge a deposit on the arm bands that gets given back when they are returned? Might be more trouble than it’s worth though.
I like the check in/check out system myself, especially since the check out is necessarily taken care of at the desk. We probably can’t hack the wristbands much anyhow, but a strobe or other nuisance would have been kind of neat.
Does the facility offer lockers for shoes and belongings during tramapoline sessions? Maybe that could be the time & place to return wristbands. It worked at the bowling alley.
I think enough time has passed to tell about how … um, some older boys, sixth graders, probably, would cut the security strips off of videos from Blockbuster to use for pranks. You could tape one inside your shirt to trigger the theft alarm at the video store for hilarious laffs as the clerks, barely out of school themselves, fumbled around looking for the stolen item. A really sinister kid might hide one in his sister’s coat. Note that this was a carryover prank from hiding library books (with similar security devices) in classmates’ bookbags, also setting off the alarm but the librarians were wise to the trick.
Yes. The approach of alarm with all rfid tags is what I was going to start with, but I want to make sure that I have the right reader/antenna combo with the ability to connect to a raspberry pi to run the add-one or the database for specific tags. The goal is to have the wristbands removed by the court monitors once they change colors but this would be for the stragglers that they miss.
So the ask is that I need help pair a reader with 1 or 2 antennas with the ability to connect the reader to a control system - arduino or raspberry pi to control sounds and lights.