RFID Based Smart Personal Baggage System
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2018
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Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka
Abstract
Advances in the RFID technology over the last three decades have revolutionized
the field of engineering. The technology has been applied to an enormous number of
applications where contactless identification is required. The rate of adoption of the
technology keeps increasing due to the relatively low cost of the modern RFID
based systems. Personal asset tracking is becoming more and more important since
people tend to forget their belongings due to their hectic schedules and the increased
number of personals gadgets in use. In this paper, a method of using RFID based
system to track the personal items and their safety during travel has been
introduced. The system is designed in such a way that it is embedded into a
backpack, a handbag or a traveling bag. With the help of the area tagging and the
pre-programmed schedule, the customized RFID reader system is capable of realtime tracking, managing the integrity and providing anti-theft capabilities to the
personal belongings while traveling. Then, the system integration method and the
special strategies of controlling the RFID system with a constrained environment
inside a baggage have been elaborated in detail. In addition, we introduced a
dynamic transmit power controlling algorithm to maintain the tracking perimeter to
be restricted only to the baggage, even when the items inside the baggage are
changing and the signal attenuation is changed. Furthermore, we discussed a patchantenna, which is designed to use with the specific application requirements and
space constraints in detail. The integration and research results have been successful
and based on that, future improvements to the system with technology
advancements have been discussed along this paper.
Keywords: RFID, Personal-assets, Smart-baggage, Anti-theft, Patch-antenna
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Computer Science, Information System