Hi Karl,

ah! I didn't consider these (they are not the electronic ID/payment card
types Daniel was considering, I think?).
Good point; any info on the overal bandwidth these systems might use?

Cheers,
Marcus

On 12/27/2015 10:46 PM, Karl Koscher wrote:
> There are also far-field RFID systems, such as the EPC Gen2 standard
> that was intended to replace product barcodes but has found itself in
> other applications such as toll road tags and DHS-compliant IDs.
>
> One potential problem with trying to detect these systems with GNU
> Radio is that the tags themselves will operate over a wide frequency
> range (e.g. the entire 900 MHz ISM band), so the readers will hop
> around the band for FCC compliance.
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Marcus Müller
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     The problem is that technically, the energy sent out by an RFID reader
>     isn't big enough to detect readers from afar; they are near-field
>     devices, as opposed to the typical far-field antenna based radio
>     transmitters.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Marcus
>
>     On 12/27/2015 06:01 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>     >
>     > I did a search for RFID on the wiki and it didn't find anything
>     >
>     >
>     
> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&wiki_pages=1&q=rfid
>     >
>     > Looking through the mailing list history there have been some
>     > discussions though, e.g.
>     >
>     >
>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2006-10/msg00296.html
>     >
>     > One interesting GNU Radio use case that comes to mind is to
>     build some
>     > kind of device that can sniff covert attempts to scan RFID
>     cards.  It
>     > would be interesting to carry the device around shopping malls and
>     > railway stations and discover the locations of all the hidden
>     scanners
>     > that are tracking people these days.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>     > Daniel
>     >
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