Remote Controls and Card embedded antennas

For infrared you could use Arduino-IRremote
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aimaty:
And what about those cards with a multi-turn antenna embebed in it, with what i think is a small IC? Like those for transportation.

If never seen any of them used for transportation of anything but information, :o
but it could be something in the 2.4GHz range, bluetooth, WiFi, NRF24L01, ...