Abstract: A beaded prayer system includes a beaded prayer device, which includes a plurality of beads connected by at least one wire that passes through a center of the plurality of beads. The beaded prayer device also includes a power source and processing circuitry that can detect contact between two or more adjacent beads, store bead contact data in memory, and transmit the bead contact data to one of a plurality of RFID readers. The beaded prayer system also includes at least one server that receives the bead contact data from one of the plurality of RFID readers, processes the bead contact data to perform pattern extraction, and outputs usage patterns and/or statistics based on the pattern extraction.