RFID Journal Staff asked 7 years ago I need to log their feeding-station visits in a forest, with a distance between the reader and logger of approximately 5 meters. What would you recommend?
—Andreas
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Andreas,
To read tags at that distance, you would need to use passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags and readers. GOA RFID and a few other companies make passive UHF RFID ear tags for animals. You would need to purchase a passive UHF reader and probably connect it to a solar-powered station that could supply power out in the forest. There are a wide variety of passive UHF readers that would work.
You might want to check out Convergence System's Ltd.'s CS208-3G Intelligent Integrated Reader with GPS. Since it has GPS, you could move it around in the field and always know its location.
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—Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal
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