RFID BASED INDOOR TRACKING SYSTEM

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International Engineering Journal For Research & Development

Vol.4 Issue 5

Impact factor : 6.03

E-ISSN NO:-2349-0721

RFID BASED INDOOR TRACKING SYSTEM Prof Anand Chaudhari Shreyash Bhoyar Kaushik Bhorjar Department of CSE Department of CSE Department of CSE PRMITR, Amravati, India PRMITR, Amravati, India PRMITR, Amravati, India aachaudhari@mitra.ac.in shreyash941@gmail.com vbhorjar@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------AbstractThe concept of RFID systems has been available for a long time, yet only recently has its potential been recognized in applications of ever-growing demand. The recent popularity of RFID technology is due to its fundamental properties that characterize the production, deployment, and functionality of RFID systems. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been considered as a cost-effective alternative for indoor tracking. It gives the ability to track objects in a certain area specially in an indoor premise. RFID uses tags which uses a radio frequency to transmit its location to a RFID reader. The readers also have their own frequency which after interaction with the tag’s radio frequency can read the data stored in the tags. RFID based Tracking System is designed to track a moving personnel in a indoor area, such as a office premises, college department or college campus. Existing positioning technologies such as GPS does not provide the feature of indoor tracking. The proposed system has hardware and software components. Challenge for detecting human beings in big institutions. Whenever we want to find someone in mobile prohibited area, it is difficult to find them within a short period. This kind of circumstances can be avoided by using RFID technology. This report proposes a method that enables indoor location tracking of personnel by utilizing RFID technology. RFID technology is often leveraged to realize location in a reasonable, power efficient and user friendly manner. INTRODUCTION RFID was first used over sixty years ago by the British Air Force to identify friend aircrafts in World War II. Though it is being used for decades, recently its cost effectiveness and fundamental capabilities are being realized. The commercial use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology extends historically to the 1970’s. The introduction of this technology motivated future research that encouraged to integrate RFID into various applications such as inventory control/monitoring to human/animal tracking. However, the practical significance of this technology was not fully realized, until mass manufacturing of RFID tags and readers, at different scales and for different ranges, was made possible. Currently, RFID-based systems are being proposed as cost effective alternatives to previously established technologies Wi-Fi and GPS [1]. RFID is an example of AIDC (Automatic Identification and Data Capture) technologies. As the name suggests AIDC technologies are those technologies that involve the capturing of data without human intervention. This automatic data transmission is initiated as well as terminated with no outside help whatsoever. All this is carried out while abiding to certain pre-defined system rules and parameter that are either specific to the use-case or to the architecture. RFID is a prime example of this technology as it does not require any human interaction whatsoever to function. Once set-up is done, the system functions automatically while following the pre-specified rules. RFID uses electro-magnetic waves to power a smart tag that is fixed on an object. This uses no external energy source as the only devices interacting are the reader and the tag. This almost negligible energy requirement has made RFID a very lucrative solution for institutions which need to implement tracking solutions in places where they cannot put a power source. MOTIVATION The managers at any institute, be it an office or a school management or college department management needs to keep track of the employees to have a coordinated work environment. To keep track of the position of

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