Hi All,
I study insect movement and was thinking of using RFID to tag hundreds of insects in a swarm and try to learn about their movement this way.
I have a few technical general questions that would help evaluating the feasibility of this idea:
I understand that the RFID cheap can be very small, what about the antenna size? I will need to receive the signal from ~1 meter away and there might be some bushes / dirt in the way. in some cases can be up to a feet of dirt.
Is it possible to use several receivers and by synchronizing the receivers get by triangulation the location of each insect? and to do so at a reasonable rate so I can go over few hundreds insects within a few seconds? or minutes?
I have no limitation to the size of the receivers but will need that the tags to be small. I would like to glue them on beetles...
Thanks a lot Roy