xSIID NFC + LED Implant vs Sifely Door lock

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I am a wee bit bummed, by I believe there is a solution. A couple years ago I ordered an xSIID implant to poke around and test. We have Sifely RFID / bioprint / keypad doorlocks at the shop and home. When testing the implant in a little plastic baggie, it read the chip easily, and I had no problem opening the locks with it. SO, I ordered a new, sterile one and went looking for a place to get it implanted. Well, that took 2 years. The guy doing the implant suggested the fleshy part on the side of my hand. I wanted between the thumb and index finger as I pound on things with my fist all the time to line them up.

So the results weren’t spectacular. Inserted in my hand 3 or 4 months later, it took several tries to read the chip, and it reads maybe 5% of the time. Oddly, when I wear a rubber glove, it reads about 25% of the time. I figured it was maybe the location, so I tried again in a spot just behind my pinky finger. After 6 weeks or so, I can’t even get it to recognize the chip.

NFC tools reads both chips, and I can assign different tasks to each chip, but I can’t open a lock. I’ve tired RFID repeaters on my phone, which work great. Installing one on the keypad bricks the keypad…. nothing works. Taking the repeater off gets things back to normal.

I just bought some cheap circular NFD antennae/chips on Amazon. 10 pack for like $12. I went to a nail salon and had 2 installed on my right fingernails. One with just gel to level things out, the other under a fake nail. Both of these work flawlessly with the Sifely lock.

Is it possible that my hand somehow grounds out the locks ability to read my chips, while I can read cards, tokens, of fingernails just fine?

Is there a solution any of you have found?

Is it possible to install an external RFID pad / antennae that can read the chips in my hand? I think they chips should be very useful. Right now they are simply a novelty.

Thanks, Stu

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Have you seen the MFGC and RSP?

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Whoops, I’m blind, my bad

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This is interesting. I didn’t want to question your placement but did you use a field detector to ensure proper placement?

Next, did you try using a repeater on your glove or hand? I know a less ideal scenario but I’m wondering if the repeater isn’t getting enough distance from the reader to establish the field

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I’ve played with several repeaters, even linking repeater to repeater to move the field further away. But, as repeaters relate to a Sifely lock, I can find the strongest signal to the right of the #8, but when I attach the repeater sticker to the keypad, it bricks the lock. The keypad, fingerprint sensor and tags don’t do anything. The keypad won’t even light up.

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2 things:

How did you find the strongest signal?
one of these?

The repeaters are fantastic, but they are even fantastic-er if you can get a standoff.
Can you open the pad and put the sticker behind?