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<p>This paper discusses implementing a Location-Aware Library RFID service employing Radio Frequency Identification as a communication technology. Automating a library system with passive RFID tag infrastructure is proven to be feasible, and can be achieved with even distribution of RFID Antennas, well designed RFID network, an appropriate middleware, and a library application with an accurate error function that minimizes the error in the detected location to an acceptable distance, for instance, 35 cm. The paper first discusses the effect of using RFID on the upper application and System layers. A simulation of randomly distributed tags with spatially distributed antennas is shown. Simulation results are provided to prove the validity of the proposed approach, which proves that adding a localization feature to the system layer is feasible with an acceptable error range that does not exceed 1.1%.</p>
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This paper discusses implementing a Location-Aware Library RFID service employing Radio Frequency Identification as a communication technology. Automating a library system with passive RFID tag infrastructure is proven to be feasible, and can be achieved with even distribution of RFID Antennas, well designed RFID network, an appropriate middleware, and a library application with an accurate error function that minimizes the error in the detected location to an acceptable distance, for instance, 35 cm. The paper first discusses the effect of using RFID on the upper application and System layers. A simulation of randomly distributed tags with spatially distributed antennas is shown. Simulation results are provided to prove the validity of the proposed approach, which proves that adding a localization feature to the system layer is feasible with an acceptable error range that does not exceed 1.1%.

TRACKING AND AUTOMATING A LIBRARY SYSTEM USING RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY

Khalifa University of Science and Technology

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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This paper discusses implementing a Location-Aware Library RFID service employing Radio Frequency Identification as a communication technology. Automating a...

TRACKING AND AUTOMATING A LIBRARY SYSTEM USING RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY

Online veröffentlicht: 01. Juni 2017

Seitenbereich: 1 - 26

Eingereicht: 14. März 2017

Akzeptiert: 03. Mai 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-219

Schlüsselwörter
Radio Frequency Identification, RFID, Library Automation, Location-aware, Localization

© 2017 Ali Alwadi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

TRACKING AND AUTOMATING A LIBRARY SYSTEM USING RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY

Online veröffentlicht: 01. Juni 2017

Seitenbereich: 1 - 26

Eingereicht: 14. März 2017

Akzeptiert: 03. Mai 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-219

SchlüsselwörterRadio Frequency Identification, RFID, Library Automation, Location-aware, Localization

© 2017 Ali Alwadi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Schlüsselwörter
Radio Frequency Identification, RFID, Library Automation, Location-aware, Localization