...Working with RFID Technofutur 3 Turning Client Vision into Results Gosselies, 23 February 2005 An International Player A leading international IT services company providing business consulting, technology integration and managed operations • Annual revenues over € 5 bn • 45,000 employees • In 50 countries 2 Turning Client Vision into Results The Olympic Games – Winning IT for a successful world-class event Atos Origin is proud to serve as the official “Worldwide Information Technology partner” for the Athens 2004, Turin 2006, and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. We provide the people, processes and technology supporting the Games. We are responsible for the overall IT strategy, project management, key software integration, network security and data integrity. With over 3 billion people all over the world watching, no single project could better illustrate our commitment to delivery 3 Turning Client Vision into Results Atos Origin & RFID February 2005 The Integrated IT architecture of the Real Time Enterprise 5 Turning Client Vision into Results The Integrated IT architecture of the Real Time Enterprise Strategic Enterprise Management Data Warehouse SCM WMS ERP MES CRM SCE Equipment E-Monitoring Chained into reality with RFID…. 6 Turning Client Vision into Results RFID Markets & Applications RFID-EPC enabled systems offer significant benefits in a wide variety of supply chain...
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...Wal-Mart, a leader in innovation in the retail industry has already adopted this comprehensive technology. The challenge I may face by retailers and suppliers is to develop an inventory notification system that incorporates RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology at its best. I will fill this gap by providing a solution using Radio Frequency Identification tags to keep track of products on store shelves, in inventory, and products that are bought. The system will feature radio frequency identification tags and readers. Readers will be located in the storage room and at the point-of-sale terminals. I will be focusing the project on software development and will outsource the supply of RF tags and readers. I propose a way to give more control to the end user by building a notification system with multiple types of alerts that allows the user to control which applications notifications are used for each alert. This will help create adaptive rules for rating the importance and urgency of inventory to determine which notifications a user wants to see. On the other hand, a computerized inventory and monitoring of a company is needed to save time and money. My project aims to design and develop management software that will incorporate RFID technology. My project will also enable store management to know the current status of products on the shelves, what is selling, and what is in the stockroom. Features of the software will include notifying users of empty shelves...
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...Integrating RFID (Radio frequency Identification system) and bar-coding Business systems management in Aero Steel Mike Vargas Applied Business Research Project IS535 Managerial Applications of Information Technology- Session SEP08-Sec O Professor Alice Richmond Contents Abstract 3 Technology Improvement Paradigm 4 Company Data 6 Current Business Issues 7 Topic Research 8 Benefits and Recommendations 11 Conclusion 13 Bibliography 16 Abstract In today’s evolving global markets, construction companies need to develop business solutions to advance bottom-line results, improve operational processes, and recognize problems and solutions quickly, and systematically and effectively implement supply chain management methods. In particular the Structural Steel and Miscellaneous Metals Industry must improve its ability to match the ever increasing demands of the customer-driven market place. As Architectural and Engineering firms set the standards of technology use in their industries so must the steel fabricator to “confirm to owners, the design community, building officials, and the construction industry that a certified structural steel...
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...RFID SECURITY February 2008 © The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region The contents of this document remain the property of, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the express permission of the Government of the HKSAR. Disclaimer: Whilst the Government endeavours to ensure the accuracy of the information in this paper, no express or implied warranty is given by the Government as to the accuracy of the information. The Government of HKSAR accepts no liability for any error or omission arising from or related to the use of the information. TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary ............................................................................................................................. 2 I. Introduction.................................................................................................................... 3 An Introduction to RFID ................................................................................................. 3 How does RFID work? ................................................................................................... 4 II. Adoption of RFID........................................................................................................... 5 Business Trends .............................................................................................................. 5 Government Use .....................................................................................
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...value added processes to meet the real needs of the end customers (Fawcett & Magnan, 2002). Thus we can see that a supply chain process involves multiple stages starting from suppliers and ending to end users or customers. The entities which are involved in a normal supply chain are suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, distributors, transporters, retailers and customers. NEED OF RFID One of the key challenges many organisations face is managing the interconnectivity and collaboration between different entities of the supply chain. Seamless flow of information, tighter integration and communication between channel partners plays an important role in increasing the efficiency of any supply chain and in turn the profitability and rate of return for any business. Due to the lack of communication and flow of information between the stages of supply chain results in poor product visibility and lack of transparency in the supply chain. This occurs mainly because of the fact that each link in the chain operates as individual entity. Information technologies like Radio Frequency Identification Information (RFID) along with ERP and centralized...
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...Current Event Article-RFID Prasanna Kumar Mandipudi Wilmington University How Cognizant Cut Costs by Deploying RFID to track IT assets Cognizant is 8 billion dollor firm with over 70000 working people in all its organizations across the globe. Cognizant is key IT service provider for all top ten industries ranging from healthcare to insurance. Cognizant offers system integration technology to all vital industries for instance cognizant provides imaging technology for Healthcare Industry. Cognizant have over 40 delivery centers and 30 huge data centers. With large data centers, Asset management and tracking of company’s assets at employee laptop level is very crucial challenge to company. The misplacement of company’s prominent piece of data asset affects company’s leases and compliances. The use of excel sheets and spread sheets to record the location of data at rack level is expensive and labor intensive. The audit of datacenters every two years involves most highly paid IT people. The company’s first choice of barcode and passive RFID is ineffective. Cognizant RFID Center of Excellence developed an active RFID solution to provide “Real time Inventory and asset awareness for high valued corporate assets. cognizant roped in this technology for asset management. Each asset is tied with an active tag like server blade which plays key role in tracking of asset. RF code rack readers are mounted to ensure and to notify even an inch move of the asset in the rack. Dual...
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...ABSTRACT ‘AUTOMATED ATTENDANCE SYSTEM ’ is designed to collect and manage student’s attendance records from RFID devices installed in a class rooms. Based on the verification of student identification at the entrances system, the RFID tag can be embedded in the ID card of the individual. First to activate a new session(hour) the teacher swipes her RFID tag this marks a new attendance session during which the students can swipe once to increment their attendance. The RFID module operate in 125Khz range, when a tag passes through its vicinity, the module senses its presence and extracts its unique serial number and passes this code into microcontroller which matches the code to the correct person and increments the attendance of the particular person. CONTENTS Chapter No TOPIC Page 1. Introduction……………………………….. 04 2. Block Diagram and Description……….… 05 3.Circuit …………………… 09 Circuit Diagram ..........…….……. 10 Circuit Description……………………… 11 4.Software…………….................. 24 5.Printed Circuit Board ……………………….... 30 PCB Layout …………………….…… 43 6.Estimate……………………………………. 44 7.Conclusion ………………………………... 46 8.Bibpiography…………………………………...
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...organizations can achieve competitive advantage by effectively managing its core competencies and activities to create cost advantage and/or differentiation by leveraging Information technology (IT) as a major strategic tool. The latest revolutionary technological breakthrough is the emergence of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system which has the demonstrated ability to identify, track, trace and collect information on almost any physical object wirelessly, using electronic tags and radio waves connected to local and international telecommunications networks. RFID therefore provides at least a viable alternative to and significant advantage over the use of barcodes by making use of internet technology and thus providing unlimited opportunities for added value creation and business expansion. While, admittedly, it is no magic elixir and has serious implementation challenges, its full business benefits can be achieved once careful strategic analysis identifying the specific needs of the organization is exercised. RFID is part of the Automatic Identification (Auto-ID) technological grouping which includes barcodes and smart cards. A RFID system has three major components electronic tags (transponders) which stores data, reading devices (interrogators) to capture data and computer hardware and software infrastructure for data processing. Initially developed by the British in the 1940’s for aircraft identification during World War II, its use rapidly spread to other applications...
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...members of E&C dept. for providing us with the required facilities and support towards the completion of the project. We are extremely happy to acknowledge and express our sincere gratitude to our parents for their constant support and encouragement and last but not the least friends and well-wishers for their help and cooperation and solutions to problems during the course of the project. Prepared By: Kothiya Jaydeep A. Bhamani Karim M. Patel Animesh H. Merchant Sarthi J. Abstract Now a day there is a huge rush in the toll plazas in order to pay the toll tax. Therefore in order to reduce the traffic jam and to save time & also to reduce the money loss of 300 cores / year. We have designed project for the automation in toll tax payment using RFID. We have made the automation of toll plaza using combination of PLC and RFID. This project explains the implantation of automation in toll plaza which is a step towards improving the monitoring of vehicles, travelling in predetermine routes. In this project we focuses on an electronic toll collection (ETC) system using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. This proposed RFID...
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...reader collision problem in large scale RFID systems : Algorithms, performance evaluation and discussions John Sum, Kevin Ho, Siu-chung Lau Abstract—Assigning neighboring RFID readers with nonoverlapping interrogation time slots is one approach to solve the reader collision problem. In which, Distributed Color Selection (DCS) and Colorwave algorithm have been developed, and simulated annealing (SA) technique have been applied. Some of them (we call them non-progresive algorithms), like DCS, require the user to pre-defined the number of time slots. While some of them (we call them progressive), like Colorwave, determine the number automatically. In this paper, a comparative analysis on both non-progressive and progressive algorithms to solve such a problem in a random RFID reader network is presented. By extensive simulations on a dense network consisting of 250 readers whose transmission rates are 100%, a number of useful results have been found. For those non-progressive type algorithms, it is found that DCS is unlikely to generate a collision-free solution, even the number of time slots is set to 20. On the other hand, heuristic and SAbased algorithms can produce collision-free solutions whenever the number of time slots is set to 16. For the cases when the number of time slots is not specified, heuristic-based, SAbased and Colorwave algorithms are all able to determine the number automatically and thus generate collision-free solution. However, SA-based algorithms require much...
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...Review of Business Information Systems – Third Quarter 2008 Volume 12, Number 3 United Parcel Service’s IT Infrastructure: A Case Analysis Russell Baker, Jacksonville University Brian Wm. Dudley, Jacksonville University Sean Holt, Jacksonville University Chris Stockton, Jacksonville University Vanja Vukota, Jacksonville University ABSTRACT This analysis of the information technology infrastructure at United Parcel Service (UPS) begins with a general overview of the company’s information technology (IT) environment to establish awareness of the size and complexity of this corporation. It includes a macro-level breakdown of the technology infrastructure of UPS ranging from the data centers to the PCs currently in operation. The study also more closely analyzes the software and database structure of UPS along with an analysis of the company’s E-commerce activities. It includes an interview with Tom Creech, the North Florida District E-commerce manager at UPS. Finally, research was conducted to evaluate the emerging technologies that UPS is implementing and employing to support the business strategy and maintain its competitive edge. OVERVIEW I nfrastructure, data and proprietary e-commerce software elements are the foundation of UPS’s technology success. These tools work together to support its e-commerce strategy, which in turn supports the company’s business strategy. The company’s ongoing investment and research in emerging technologies gives UPS its competitive advantage...
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...| ByMr Shireesh | RFID | | | | Words Count: 2,180 Tables of Content Page Tables of Content 1 Introduction 2 What is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)? 2 - 3 Purpose of RFID 3 - 6 Benefits of RFID 6 Disadvantages of RFID 6 Points of View 7 Conclusion 8 References 9 Introduction Imagine a technology that could slice the time it takes a retailer to measure inventory, one that could provide accurate information about a single tem as it moves from manufacturing through a store and then on to post-sales support. Imagine one that could finally fully automate checkout, freeing store personnel to provide increased levels of customer support. RFID - Radio Frequency Identification...
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...ABSTRACT ‘AUTOMATED ATTENDANCE SYSTEM ’ is designed to collect and manage student’s attendance records from RFID devices installed in a class rooms. Based on the verification of student identification at the entrances system, the RFID tag can be embedded in the ID card of the individual. First to activate a new session(hour) the teacher swipes her RFID tag this marks a new attendance session during which the students can swipe once to increment their attendance. The RFID module operate in 125Khz range, when a tag passes through its vicinity, the module senses its presence and extracts its unique serial number and passes this code into microcontroller which matches the code to the correct person and increments the attendance of the particular person. CONTENTS Chapter No TOPIC Page 1. Introduction……………………………….. 04 2. Block Diagram and Description……….… 05 3.Circuit …………………… 09 Circuit Diagram ..........…….……. 10 Circuit Description……………………… 11 4.Software…………….................. 24 5.Printed Circuit Board ……………………….... 30 PCB Layout …………………….…… 43 6.Estimate……………………………………. 44 7.Conclusion ………………………………... 46 8.Bibpiography…………………………………...
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...industry is advantageous in moving warehouse goods and personal items from destination to destination. The internal workings of the shipping industry is comprised of a system of conveyor belts along with trained professionals that process packages from one destination to the next. A major flaw in the transitioning of packages is misdirection and the use of antiquated processing systems. These delays with time sensitive material jeopardize customer loyalty and the competitive edge within the shipping industry. This paper addresses these issues and provides some insight and reasoning to the problem; as well as, solutions. Table of Contents Introduction 3 Company Background 4 Business Problems 6 Benefits of Solution 9 Solutions 10 Alternatives 12 Vendor 13 Technical Description 14 Process Changes 16 Selection 18 Evaluate each alternative 19 Pick the best solution 20 High-Level Implementation Plan 21 Conclusion w/ summary 22 Table of Figures 23 Works Cited 24 Introduction The package shipping industry provides a critical global service to the worldwide corporate, private, and residential sectors. With the advent of E-commerce emergence over the past few decades, the internet has provided businesses and individuals with availability and access to warehouses of items at the touch of a button. These items must still be packaged and shipped from one destination to the next. Companies in the shipping industry like FedEx provide this service of assuring that customer...
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...limited. The use of Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is being used increasingly for its efficiency and safety. In this paper I will analyze how the RFID technology is being used within a hospitals information system (HIS) for a better workflow/ Introduction Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) allows the hospitals to restructure their ways in order to reduce costs, maintaining the same level of service to the patients. RFID is a method of identifying unique items using radio waves (Allen, Charles, 2004). A reader communicates with a tag, which holds digital information in a microchip (Allen, Charles, 2004). A RFID system in order to work needs to use software that acts as an interface between the reader and the organizations’ information systems. An RFID system integrated with HIS will improve patient safety and provides better tracking of a patient’s drug treatment. Many hospitals want to increase the efficiency and quality of patient identification and monitoring procedures. The use of RFID goes beyond the use of EMR and the way that it connects and provides the medical information to medical staff, physicians, family members and patients itself. The use of RFID is to solve the problems that are present today in health. In this paper I will discuss the e importance to focus on a RFID –based system name (SIMOPAC) that integrates the multi-agent technologies in the field of health care. RFID...
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