RFID Journal Staff asked 13 years ago For example, I want to find my television remote. Can radio frequency identification help?
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In 2005, RFID Update (now owned by RFID Journal) wrote about a product aimed at consumers, being sold by a company called iAutomate (see Consumer Product: HomeSeer RFID Starter Kit). HomeSeer 2.0 allows a user to control lights, open garage doors, be notified if a pet goes outside and so forth. The system employs long-range active RFID tags that would be too big for a television remote control.
Passive tags that could be used on a TV remote, as well as tools, socks and other items that commonly end up missing in the home, are becoming cheaper. But a handheld reader that could locate them is still priced at more than $1,000, so it's probably impractical at this time to utilize RFID to find everything within your home. That said, we are not that far away from seeing a home application of RFID becoming a reality.
—Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal
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