Re: $50 long-range active RFID for HA

["Kurt Delaney" <kurt_dot_delaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Marc_F_Hult" <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:13:20 -0700, AZ Woody <reply@here> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:48:09 GMT, AZ Nomad <aznomad.2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:01:51 -0500, Marc_F_Hult
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>>>>There has been considerable interest in long-range active
>>>>Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for use with home automation
>>>>systems.
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>>>>One can get a set of active (315 MHz or 433MHz) RFID receiver (with
>>>>RS-232 interface) and transmitter  PCBs with a claimed range of 8 meters
>>>>(keyfob) 40 meters (car accessory) for about $50 depending on device,
>>>>enclosures and antenna chosen.
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>>>What good is it for home automation?  Are you going to make everybody
>>>wear badges?
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>>Badges, we don't need no stinkin' badges! :)
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> Might you mean: "Badges? We ain't got no badges."  ?
>
> as said by Gold Hat, played by Alfonso Bedoya, in the John and Walter
> Huston/Bogart 1948 film _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_ ?

No, he was referring to Mel Brooke's "Blazing Saddles". :-)

Kurt