ieeefinalyearprojects

An internet based RFID library management system

An Interactive RFID-based Bracelet for Airport Luggage Tracking System

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a promising technology that has been implemented lately in airports. RFID tags are used to identify and track the location of passengers' luggage. This paper investigates the use of an interactive bracelet that communicates with the RFID system by mean of a database application. The database system interacts with the bracelet using messages that inform the passenger about his luggage status. The proposed database design and implementation are also discussed to describe the different functionalities of the application.

Modularization of mobile shopping assistance systems (RFID shopping ROBOT)

A customer shopping process consists of several essential and optional tasks like payment or information retrieval. This paper presents an overview of the possible solutions in the field of Mobile Interaction that can be applied in order to perform these tasks in future applications based on current and upcoming communication and interaction technologies. The tasks are represented by several modules, like shopping list management, shopping basket management and payment. These modules conceptually describe the available opportunities to realize specific parts of a customer shopping process based on several technologies and customer behavior. In particular, a deep insight into solutions based on Near Field Communication (NFC) is provided. For the first time, the modularization of shopping assistance systems has been considered. It is a substantial advantage for the retailer as it enables the analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of technologies and services. Furthermore, it allows the investigation independent from basic technologies like RFID and barcodes. Regardless of the used technology, the modules can be linked with each other which allows a simple integration of several modules in a retailer's infrastructure. Depending on the usage context, several combinations of modules are more applicable than others. Exemplarily, two implemented prototypes are described illustrating how modules can be combined to handle the specific needs of a market

Exploring multimodal feedback for an NFC-based mobile shopping assistant


This paper explores how mobile devices can provide useful multimodal feedback during interactions with NFC-tagged objects. We exemplify our approach with a mobile shopping assistant that uses haptic-visual and audio-haptic feedback to inform diabetics about the agreeability of tagged grocery products. A preliminary laboratory study shows a preference for haptic-visual feedback which is regarded as more helpful, easier to learn and more pleasant to use. The results stress the usefulness of multimodal feedback for mobile interactions with NFC-tagged objects in this context and inform future work, e.g. about the expressiveness of different feedback modalities and patterns.

RFID-based Location System for Forest Search and Rescue Missions

This paper presents the framework of an RFID-based rescue robot for missing people in forest environment. The three main design considerations include the reliability, the cost, and the environmental sustainability. For that, the paper analyzes different outdoor location technologies that can be used for this task, namely GPS, WiMAX and RFID. Former research in mobile robots based on GPS and WiMAX has resulted in high costs systems while RFID offers a lower cost alternative. The aim of this work is to provide an already existing mobile robot with RFID technology. Moreover, to overcome the inability of current rescue robots to detect human presence, the addition of an Infrared camera with thermal sensors is discussed. Finally, in order to optimize the energy management and to increase the autonomy of the rescue robot, the paper presents a power supply solution using solar energy.

Automated Retail Store Based on RFID

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is one of the most exciting and promising technologies in the field of automated identification. This technology is being increasingly used in various areas such as supply-chain management, security, library, airline, military, animal farms, sports, etc. Common application examples are equipment tracking, personnel tracking, vehicle access controls, and items security in departmental stores. Resource optimization, quality customer care, enhanced accuracy, and efficient business processes are the motivational factors behind the enormous use of RFID technology. In this paper, we present the design, development and implementation of an Automated Future Retail Store based on RFID technology.

Intelligent Parking System for Car Parking Guidance and Damage Notification

This paper presents an innovative intelligent parking system (IPS) that has two functions: Car parking guidance and car damage notification. IPS is an advanced automatic driving system that consists of car guidance which proposes oriented assistance for drivers while parking. IPS has some interesting functionalities that ensure an easy parking without damages, parking within less time in any suitable spots and getting a notification if the parked car has been scratched or damaged while the driver is not in the car. The main purpose of the IPS system considers a control car system, an algorithmic move car system and a damage notification system to the vehicle. During the parking process, the driver is alerted by visual and sound signals. The IPS system provides a path planning image that is displayed on the on-board computer system to indicate the directions for the wheels. The damage notification system consists of car-camera shock sensors placed in the front and rear of the vehicle that record the incident when the driver is not in the car.

Indoor navigational aid using active RFID and QR-code for sighted and blind people

The aim of this paper is to describe a new Navigation technique to assist the blind and people with low vision to reach their destinations in an indoor environment. The proposed technique is based on our previous positioning technique using active Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. A Global Positioning System (GPS) does not work efficiently in indoor environments. This research produced a navigation service for sighted and blind people to assist them to reach their destination of interest via the shortest path. Tags were distributed at known locations and the mobile reader was carried by a user. The system role is to determine the shortest path to the destination which was indicated by a user. When the shortest path is calculated, the system indicates way points in the path which were represented by active tags in this scenario. Then the users are navigated to these points one by one via QR-Code till they reach their destinations. It was implemented in an indoor environment as a simulation system to navigate the user to particular offices with a successful shortest path identification rate and satisfactory navigation results were achieved.

Occupancy Monitoring Using RFID Technology for Efficient Building Lighting Control

The control of artificial lighting is a key parameter to be considered in buildings towards energy and cost savings. Efficient, need-based control of building lighting through occupancy detection using Passive Infrared (PIR) sensors has become a reliable and well established approach. However, the use of only PIR sensors for occupancy monitoring does not offer much savings and depends upon a building's type and use, and its occupancy levels. Accuracy of occupancy monitoring greatly affects building lighting control strategy and hence, percentage savings. Besides considering lighting control based on occupancy detection using PIR sensors, this paper presents a data fusion approach of passive RFID based occupancy monitoring with PIR. The proposed methodology provides an estimated 13% of electrical energy savings in one open plan office of a University campus building. Practical implementation of RFID gateways provide real-world occupancy profiling data to be fused with PIR sensing towards analysis and improvement of building lighting usage.

Developing an Intelligent e-Restaurant With a Menu Recommender for Customer-Centric Service

Traditional restaurant service is typically passive: Waiters must interact with customers directly before processing their orders. However, a high-quality service system should be customer centered; it should immediately recognize customer identities, favorite menus, and expenditure records to provide customer-centric services. To achieve this goal, this study integrates radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless local area network, database technologies, and a menu recommender to develop an intelligent e-restaurant for customer-centric service. This system enables waiters to immediately identify customers via RFID-based membership cards and then actively recommend the most appropriate menus through menu recommender for customers. Experimental results that are obtained from a case study conducted in two Taipei restaurants indicate that the proposed system has practical potential in providing customer-centric service.

RFID Technology Applied to Monitor Vehicle in Highway / On the Design and Deployment of RFID Assisted Navigation Systems for VANETs

Combining the condition actualities of the online monitoring system and freeway network management system, through the requirement define and categorize analytical of plug-in management system, the network plug-in management system of freeway network is put forward based on Web interface and B/S/A. The system adopts the design method of object-oriented. The system contains convenience system structure and safe mechanisms, and incarnates the system management efficiently mode of the distribution and the concentration types together. The system can give the explicit definition and interface mode to the normal regulations equipments, and provide the prospect support towards the unknown requirement, and carry on the deployment and constitutions for some new supervision equipments. The plug-in manages system realizes the present applied requirement with a kind of easy and convenient way. It reduces the coupling of the module, and increases the extensible and credibility.

A RFID Based e-STOP Sign and Its Impacts to Vehicle Emissions

Traditional STOP signs at unsignalized intersections are easily blocked by trees, trucks and other obstacles, which will induce high risk of incidents and even extra vehicle emissions. The so-called Infrastructure-to-Vehicle (I2V) communications can automatically inform drivers of earlier awareness through in-vehicle display and audio device, which alternates vehicle driving behaviors and operation modes, and will possibly reduce vehicle emissions. In this paper, the feasible working range of the RFID based e-STOP sign within the smart guide signing system (SGSS) at unsignalized intersections is firstly tested, and its impacts on vehicle emissions are further identified. Test and emission estimation results indicate that the RFID based e-STOP sign can reduce vehicle emissions at unsignalized intersections, especially when vehicles make turnings.

Application of RFID Technology for In-House Drug Management System

Wearable object detection system for the blind

The blind's capacities to navigate in a particular place and to organize their daily activities are of vital importance for their health and well-being. Organizing any kind of simple daily activity can be especially difficult; it is not easy for the blind to distinguish the different items, such as packaged foods and drug containers just by touching with their hands. RFID, or radio frequency identification, is a technology that can provide a support for improving the organization and orientation during the daylight activities. RFID uses radio waves to deliver data from a tag, which stores information, to a reader, which can elaborate the information making decisions. This technology is very useful in many different contexts such as scanning passports, shipments and automatic highway toll collecting. As the RFID technology stands out for its inherent technical nature of any basic RFID system, it may involve additional improvements for numerous applications in the field of health care. In this paper, a RFID device designed as a support for the blind in searching some objects is presented; in particular, it has been develop for searching the medicines in a cabinet at home. The device is able to provide to the blind some pieces of information about the distance and simplify the search; besides identifying the medicines, the device is able to provide the user an acoustic signal in order to find easily the desired product as soon as possible. It is noteworthy the fact that it gives the blind some items of information about the distance of a defined object, that is how near or far it is. This application is obtained using the RSSI (Received Strength Signal Indicator) value, measuring the power of the received signal of the tag.

MAMBO: A Mobile Advertisement Mechanism Based on Obscure Customer's Location by RFID

The features of mobile advertisement include instantaneity, interaction, and personalization, which can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of commercial advertisement. The study proposes a mobile advertisement mechanism for large supermarkets. The mechanism will provide both push and pull advertisement according the user's location. In push mode, each customer can always receive the message of the promoted goods nearby. In pull mode, customer can request the information about the goods they need actively. The success of mobile advertisement depends on whether the system can send proper information to the potential consumer at the proper time based on his/her location and preference. The key issue is processed via an indoor localization scheme based on RFID in the investigation

Design and Implement of Meeting Attendance System Based on RFID

An Attendance Management System (AMS) based on TCP/IP protocol is designed and realized. This paper expounds the principle of the RFID reader device in AMS, its hardware and software design. The reader device takes ARM LM3S9B90 as the core and Philips's MFRC531 as the transceiver chip of RFID reader. In application, the system works stable and has good real-time performance.

Design of Attendance Management Based on Contactless IC Card

An Attendance Management System (AMS) based on TCP/IP protocol is designed and realized. This paper expounds the principle of the RFID reader device in AMS, its hardware and software design. The reader device takes ARM LM3S9B90 as the core and Philips's MFRC531 as the transceiver chip of RFID reader. In application, the system works stable and has good real-time performance

Research of Dynamic Key Management on RFID System

Using RFID technology can significantly improve social efficiency, but the security of RFID systems is the biggest obstacle to its application. By analyzing flaws of fixed key mechanism in RFID systems, a simple algorithm of RFID dynamic key management is proposed. An experimental SCM system is designed to verify the algorithm. Experimental results show that the algorithm is safe, effective. The experimental RFID systems with proposed algorithm have the potential value of social promotion.

Research and Implementation of Access Control System Based on RFID

With the development of face recognition and the wide use of RFID technology, the reliability and efficiency of identity verification is improved. The paper introduces an intelligence access control system, which consists of face detection based on skin model, RFID card processing and face recognition based on FNN. This system can be used in many fields, such as safety check in public activities, access control in uptown and work attendance check. There is a very important practical value.

People Locator: A System for Family Reunification

Improving Safety in Operating Room: Design and Experimentation of a RFID-Based Medical Device for Surgical Sponges Management

In this paper the authors intend to present an application of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) in health care, with the aim to improve clinical safety in operating room. It was designed and built a prototype for counting sponges during surgery. The presented system, following in vitro and in vivo tests, has allowed to obtain very good results in terms of detection of the gauze in the abdomen of the patient and, in general, in management of them during the clinical practice