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March 23, 2005

Your Home RFID Starter Kit from iAutomate

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Gizmodo posted this about the HomeSeer RFID Starter Kit sold by iAutomate.com. Kind of cool. With the kit you can…

  • Control the lights, HVAC, garage door or security system when your car approaches or leaves your home.
  • Detect if vehicle is in the garage.
  • Detect a person entering or leaving a room or area.
  • Arm or Disarm Security by individual tag.
  • Automatically open a “pet” door when your pet approaches the door.
  • Control, Lights, Music, and Temperature

…among other things. Not so sure about how secure all of this is (i.e., controlling your security system, etc.), but here’s a link to the user manual that might have some details. The HomeSeer RFID Starter Kit runs $477.95 (ouch!).

BTW, it uses COM ports! Uhhh… have they heard of this new thing called USB?

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Comments

Thought I would clarifiy your post; our product works with standard COM ports and USB via a USB to serial adaptor.

The USB standard limits cable length to 16', not very practical if your first RFID reader MUST be 16' or less from the PC because of USB. RS232 can be run three times that distance; hence COM ports.

From the first reader to all other readers the protocol is RS485, which can travel as far as 2000 feet.

Thanks for the press.

Peter Monahan

P.S. Before the introduction of our RFID system, the costs were $5,000.00 and Up for equal features. We think our product is a Steal at $477.95

Posted by: Peter Monahan at March 31, 2005 06:40 PM

Peter,

Right on! Thanks for the clarification.

Sorry that it took a while to approve your comment (I have approval turned on to avoid the PartyPoker, et al. spammers).

Posted by: danoschmano at April 6, 2005 05:05 PM