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RFID Home Automation Systems

We provide RFID home automation systems for enhance security and comfortable living. At Identium, we understand the change in scenarios and deliver tailor made solutions to enhance the comfort of every Home owner.

With MNRE thrust and focus on generating renewable energy from Solar and other sources and announcing net metering policy to give credits for the unused power generated and feeding the grid, The home owners can install security devices and automate home appliances to save and optimize power utilities

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Net meteringWhen your home is equipped with a renewable energy source (such as wind or solar power), it sends the excess energy that’s generated back into the grid to power other homes. An electrical converter called an inverter turns the DC (direct current) power coming from your renewable energy source into AC (alternating current) power, which matches the voltage of the electricity flowing through the power line.

As the excess energy is being generated, your power meter spins backward rather than forward, giving you a credit that you can use to pay for your future energy use (you can roll over excess electricity to your next bill, just as many cell phone companies let you roll over minutes).

If you’ve generated more energy than you’ve used, your electric company may pay you back for the extra power at the prevailing rate. If you have market-rate net metering the utility company will pay only a wholesale rate, which is less than retail and won’t earn you anything (it’s kind of like giving away your extra energy), but you’ll still save on your overall power bill.

Which RFID frequency belongs in a home, and where

In a house or a gated flat, RFID does one job well: it proves identity at a fixed point. The tap is the trigger; your controller or panel decides what follows — release the lock, disarm an alarm zone, switch on entry lighting, log who came in. Choosing the right frequency at each of those points matters more than the brand of panel.

For doors, cabinets and any credential a person carries, the answer is HF 13.56 MHz — the ISO 14443 family, which covers Mifare Classic, DESFire and the NFC tags a phone can read, with ISO 15693 vicinity cards sitting at the same frequency. Range is a few centimetres, and that is the point: the card has to be deliberately presented, so nothing opens because a fob was sitting in a pocket near the door. HF is not EPC Gen2 or RAIN RFID; those terms describe passive UHF only and do not apply to a door reader.

Older 125 kHz LF proximity fobs still turn up in society entry panels. They are cheap and read-only, with no meaningful security, so they suit a service gate or a store cupboard rather than a main door. Where an LF estate is already installed, people can be moved onto HF credentials in stages rather than in one cutover — tell us which panels are in place and we will work out what the replacement readers have to support.

Passive UHF sits at 865–868 MHz in India, the band WPC delicensed for RFID in its Short Range Devices (Exemption from Licence) Rules, 2021 — worth reconfirming the current position with WPC before you finalise a specification. This is the EPC Gen2 / ISO/IEC 18000-63 air interface, marketed as RAIN RFID, and it earns its place at one point only: the vehicle gate, where a windshield tag typically reads from a few metres as the car rolls up. Mounting position, glass type, reader placement and surrounding metal all move that figure, so treat it as a starting point to test on site rather than a number to design around.

Point of useFrequencyTypical credentialPractical range
Main door, flat doorHF 13.56 MHzMifare / DESFire card or keyfobA few cm
Wardrobe, safe cabinet, lockerHF 13.56 MHz or LF 125 kHzFob, wristband, cardA few cm
Legacy or service gate panelLF 125 kHz125 kHz proximity fobA few cm
Driveway or society gatePassive UHF 865–868 MHzWindshield tag, UHF cardA few metres, environment-dependent
Room presence, not accessBLE beaconBattery-powered beaconMetres, coarse and site-dependent

Two practical notes. Metal door frames and mirrored wardrobe fronts detune an HF reader antenna, so mount the reader clear of metal where you can and test the exact position before the installer fixes it. And for anything security-relevant, DESFire is the safer credential to standardise on rather than Mifare Classic. Every reader we supply ships with an SDK, demo app and source code, so the tap can be wired into whichever home controller you already run.

Frequently asked questions

Can an RFID reader be connected to a home automation controller I already own?

Usually yes, and the practical question is what your controller accepts rather than which frequency you pick. HF readers in our range are plug-and-play over USB, and a portable model can also be run from an Android phone with an OTG cable; a fixed UHF gate reader is wired in over a serial or network link, and its relay output can drive a barrier, lamp or buzzer without a PC in the loop. Where the controller has no native RFID input, the SDK, demo app and source code that ship with every reader let you read the card UID — or, with DESFire, data held in a protected file — in your own script and pass that to the controller as a trigger. Tell us which controller or entry panel you run and which inputs it accepts, and we will confirm which reader to specify.

What happens in a power cut, and can I use RFID where there is no wiring to the door?

For wardrobes, cupboards and lockers, yes — the RFID cabinet locks we supply are self-contained and battery powered, so nothing has to be wired to the door, and they read HF 13.56 MHz or LF 125 kHz credentials rather than UHF. The datasheet for the cabinet lock range specifies DC6V from four alkaline cells, rated for more than a year in normal use, with a red LED indication below about 4.8 V and more than fifty further openings after that warning, plus mechanical opening for emergencies — check the figures for the exact model you specify. A mains-powered door reader or a boom barrier is a different case: it stays up only as long as the backup your panel, UPS or inverter provides, so size that at the same time as you choose the reader rather than afterwards.

Can one card open both my front door and the society vehicle gate?

Only if the card carries both frequencies. A door reader works at HF 13.56 MHz and a vehicle gate reader at passive UHF 865–868 MHz, and a chip answers only on its own band — an HF reader cannot see a UHF card, and a UHF reader cannot see an HF one. Dual-frequency credentials do exist: one card body carrying both an HF and a UHF interface, so the same card is presented at both points. Worth being precise about the labels — EPC Gen2 and RAIN RFID describe only the UHF half; the HF half sits in the ISO 14443 family. Dual-frequency parts are not a stock line, though, and are converted against a specific order, so the simpler route is usually an HF card or fob per person for the doors and a windshield tag per vehicle — the resident and the car are different things to identify anyway.

What drives the cost of an RFID entry setup for a home or a society?

Four things: how many points you are covering, the type of reader at each point, the credential and the quantity, and whether existing wiring and panels can be reused. A standalone battery cabinet lock, a wired door reader with a controller behind it, and a UHF gate reader with its antenna are three very different line items. On credentials, our RFID wristband range starts at roughly Rs 15 per unit (2026-indicative and volume-dependent); cards, fobs and windshield tags depend on the chip, the printing and encoding you want, and the order quantity. We publish no single figure for a system, because two houses with the same door count rarely need the same hardware — send a written list of points and credentials and we will quote against that specification.

Do I need a licence or any approval to install RFID at my home or society gate?

No spectrum licence sits with you as a resident: India's passive UHF band, 865–868 MHz, is delicensed for RFID by WPC as of 2026, and the approval obligation falls on the equipment rather than the household. In practice that means asking your supplier, in writing, for the WPC approval covering the exact reader and antenna model being installed. Identium's UHF readers and antennas are WPC-approved for India's licence-exempt UHF RFID band, and Identium is BIS certified — two different things worth separating, since WPC approval concerns the radio and the band while BIS certification concerns the product standard. HF 13.56 MHz and LF 125 kHz door readers are short-range, low-power devices and are not usually the sticking point, but the same written confirmation is the safe route. Rules do change, so reconfirm the current position with WPC or BIS before you finalise a large specification.

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