Akuvox ACR-CRP12 UHF Long-Range Vehicle Reader

At a compound gate or a building car park, asking drivers to lower the window and tap a card slows the queue and fails on rainy, dusty days. The Akuvox ACR-CRP12 reads a UHF tag stuck inside the windscreen (Akuvox UHF-TAG11) from up to 15 m away, so the barrier or gate opens as the car approaches.

It works to the EPC Class 1 Gen 2 / ISO 18000-6C standard on the 902–928 MHz or 865–868 MHz band, with a 9 dBi antenna. A buzzer and a multi-colour light give drivers a visible and audible response when a tag is accepted.

It connects to the rest of the system over Wiegand, RS485, TCP/IP or USB, so it can feed an Akuvox access controller such as the A094S or A095S, which holds the list of authorised vehicles and opens the barrier. Tags are registered at a desk with the ACR-CID12 reader.

The reader is a large flat panel, 308.5 × 308.5 × 67.5 mm, in white plastic rated IP66 for outdoor mounting on a pole or wall beside the lane, working from -20 °C to +65 °C. It runs on 9–15 V DC; allow for up to 3 A while reading.