Hello,
As said, It looks like an RFID project.
For the space you want to cover, you will need several antennas and multiplex the signals.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Multi-loop-antenna-for-high-frequency-RFID-smart-Qing-Chen/4429facb5f3ec7d486ab6e9bae41b17d238a282f
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