RFID-based Faculty Availability and Monitoring System

Ms. Kathryn Ann Bolido Mr. Danilo Pobar Ms. Joyliessa Muning ECE-3

A research proposal submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements in RES101P-A22 3T/2011-2012 under Professor Aurin.

Introduction
In recent years Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) enabled an automatic identification and created lot of interest to people on realizing the importance of tracking an item or person you want to monitor and provide their possible location. Faculty Availability Monitoring System is the regular observation and recording of the faculty members time in and time out. It tracks all the attendance detail of the faculty member from the first day until the end of the term. It can handle all details about faculty members. This includes the department details, personnel details and schedule details. In the case of manual system it might not be accurate and takes manpower and consume some time but using RFID based faculty availability monitoring system almost all work is computerized and so the accuracy is maintained and also maintaining the back up is easy and takes just few minutes. Semi passive RFID tag operates similarly as passive tag but it has a battery that enables longer reading distance and uses the chip circuit to transmit information to the reader. Semi passive tags are powered from battery or so called battery assisted tags that enable a longer reading distance and the radio transmission depends on antenna activity. As data processor had it own power, so all received power can be used for transmitting back the signal which is stronger than passive transducer. This allows increasing communication distance with quit cheap solution it may last as long as ten years.

A. Background of Study
The device will be made as a RFID tag and a caller in a form of wristband. Inside of it is the RFID tag which provides the holder to have an attendance and to know that they are inside the faculty this RFID tag will transmit the signal to the signal detector which is the RFID reader.

B. Statement of the Problem

This study is proposed to lessen the manpower of doing the attendance checking. This also provides easier tracking and calling the professor if ever they are in need during the consultation hours because at this time, the students are having problem for finding the professors. Some professors are being disturbed just by calling the other professor if they are called by the students.

C. Objectives
1. to lessen manpower a. for attendance checking b. for easy calling of professors 2. for easy tracking a. availability of the professor b. schedule generated

D. Scope and Limitations of Study

A device will be invented that will detect the faculty members presence in the faculty room and will display his/her schedule in the monitor. The software will be done by Computer Engineering.

E. Date and Place of Study

This research is expected to be done on the span of 3 months January-March 2012 in the vicinity of Malayan Colleges Laguna.

Review of Related Literature

In Dennis Browns article (2007), he stated that tracking items or people is the area with the greatest application of RFID technology. It takes advantage of the technologys ability to uniquely identify an object and report that identification, along with the time, location, sensor-based information such as vibration and radiation. The ability to link this identification object with the records in a database and to trigger automatic actions such as notifications. Patrick J. Sweeney II article 2005, state that there are two parts of RFID the RFID readers and RFID tags. RFID reader produces electricity that runs down a cable at a particular rate. The electricity eventually hits a piece of metal on the antenna which radiates the same signal rate out in space at a certain frequency and wavelength. RFID tag has two basic parts: the chips, or integrated circuit and the antenna, the chip is a tiny computer that stores a series of unique numbers and the antenna enables the chip to receive power and communicate enabling the RFID tag to exchange data with the reader.

Materials and Methods

A. Materials to be used: o Wristband o o o o Active RFID tag Vibrating component Light emitting diode(LED) battery o o o o o Max232 CPU Microcontroller Monitor Long ranged RFID reader

B. Methods: The bracelet tag is activated when it passes through a radio frequency field, which has been generated by an antenna and reader.

The bracelet tag will send out programmed response

The antenna that generated the field originally and is attached to the reader detects that response.

The transceiver (or reader) sends the data to the microcontroller and to the cpu.

Microcontroller sends the information contained in the tags to monitor and displays certain information

Whenever the teacher is called the bracelet tag will vibrate this signals the professor to go out to entertain there students for submission of paper works, projects and consultation purposes.

C.

1. Prototype design and components location

The monitor will be placed inside the faculty room , beside the student limit area The CPU will be placed below the monitor screen Three pieces Long ranged RFID reader will be placed in the ceiling Block diagram Wristband Design

2. Prototype testing
Wristband will be given to the 10 professors in the CAS faculty room. This is for experimentation of the possible design and components of the wristband. And this will be also to test the efficiency of the device for possible lifespan, durability and its quality.

3. Evaluation
The professors will be given an evaluation sheet, so that they will rate the use of the device, whether if it is useful and sufficient.

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