Rather than reinvent the wheel, you might want to check out the extremely impressive ESP-RFID project. It’s still based on the ESP8266 we all know and love, but it combines the diminutive WiFi-enabled ...

Authenticating and authorizing the personnel who operate, update and maintain manufacturing systems in industrial automation applications is typically accomplished using magnetic stripe cards, smart ...

As vehicle access-control systems utilizing UHF RFID are gaining traction among gated communities, parking lots and other controlled areas, the cost has still been challenging. Readers deployed at ...

Passwords, PINs and physical keys are so yesterday. Today’s employees, students, tenants and consumers are used to accessing all kinds of locations, goods and services with the wave of an ID card or ...

A Wisconsin-based company recently made headlines when it announced that it would soon begin offering implantable RFID chips to its employees as a way for them to make cashless payments for snack ...

Photo from For a long time, identification systems have been an integral part of organizations in managing access, ensuring ...

[Glen] might describe his project of opening his garage door by way of an RFID sticker on his bike helmet as simple, but some of the interfacing he needed to do was quite complex. He walks through the ...