The present invention provides a
security monitoring method and a
card reader apparatus, which comprises a plurality of antennas or a plurality of multi-beam antennas, an RFID
card reader, an RFID controller, a camera, a processor module and a communication module. According to the present invention, the method and the apparatus are mainly used in
dementia elderly sickrooms,
nursing homes and family places, can manage the entering / leaving of
dementia elderly, and can prevent the occurrence of the stray situation; according to the apparatus, the RFID
card reader is connected to the plurality of the antennas or the plurality of the multi-beam antennas, the RFID card reader reads the information of a RFID tag and transmits to the processor module when a people wearing the tag passes through, the processor module transmits to a
server background through the communication module, the
server background or the processor module determines the entering / leaving direction of the people wearing the tag, and controls the processor module to collect the sound and the image and transmit back to the
server, and the server displays the alarm result and the on-site photo on a page, and simultaneously forwards to the relevant management personnel; and with the method and the apparatus of the present invention, the entering / leaving management of the wide channel, the accompany management, the stray alarming and other functions can be achieved with the card reader.