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.
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
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.
Ah, success finally! After trying a bunch of other options, unsuccessfully, I went back to the Midwest gadgets repeater and field strength indicator. On my phone I found that I could actually stack repeaters to move the strongest signal further away from my phone. Using the signal strength indicator alone, I found the strongest signal near the center of the keypad, but applying the repeater there bricks the keypad… SO I stuck the field strength indicator to a repeater and moved it sideways, and found the strongest signal over the #8 and just hanging off the edge of the keypad. Now the keypad works (except the #8) and both chips are read by the lock consistently. For the past couple weeks I’ve never not been able to use my chips to get into the shop door, which is exactly what I wanted. Thanks for the advice.
So, now that I have 2 chips, is there a waterproof reader that can be powered by 12 volts DC, or 120 VAC. That can scan for my chip, read it, and when read can give me a 12 volt relay contact without going out to reinvent the wheel?