Hello all! I'm making the plunge into home automation and have decided that presence/location detection is my first step, through a combination of RFID and motion detectors. I've been researching here on this forum, and particularly the iAutomate and CheaperRFID solutions. I'd like to start cheap and ramp up, so CheaperRFID is sounding good But I'm a little confused about a few things...
Are RFID solutions interchangeable? ie. could I use the CheaperRFID tags and reader, and add on some iAutomate tags? I'd like smaller tracking tags that are more of a few-feet range rather than many metres, and iAutomate has a great selection of tags, although they don't seem to note the range of them.
What's the best setup for using multiple RFID readers within a home to approximate a person's location? Can the distance/direction be effectively tuned for accuracy? These all have to be connected via serial port to a PC (or run long distances over cat5 I suppose), correct? I'm assuming there's some kind of HomeSeer client that lets you connect devices to multiple PCs?
Are RFID solutions interchangeable? ie. could I use the CheaperRFID tags and reader, and add on some iAutomate tags? I'd like smaller tracking tags that are more of a few-feet range rather than many metres, and iAutomate has a great selection of tags, although they don't seem to note the range of them.
What's the best setup for using multiple RFID readers within a home to approximate a person's location? Can the distance/direction be effectively tuned for accuracy? These all have to be connected via serial port to a PC (or run long distances over cat5 I suppose), correct? I'm assuming there's some kind of HomeSeer client that lets you connect devices to multiple PCs?
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