Screen Printed Security-Button for Radio Frequency Identification Tags

Radio frequency identi cation (RFID) security is a relevant matter. The wide spread of RFID applications in the general society and the persistent attempts to safeguard it con rm it, especially since its use involves payments and the store or transmission of sensitive information. In this contribution, we present an innovative solution for improving the security of RFID passive tags through the use of a screen printed button, that allows the reception and transmission only when a certain level of physical pressure normal to its plane is applied. The materials and fabrication technology used demonstrate an easy to implement and cost-effective system, valuable in several scenarios where the user has straight contact with the tags and where its usage is direct and intentional.This work was supported by the fellowship under Grant 2020-MSCA-IF-2017-794885-SELFSENS

RF1D TAGGING SYSTEM FOR NEWBORN BABIES

Two infants are bathed and each accidentally returned to the incorrect bassinet. A mother picks up her child according to the bassinet label, \JnaWare that a swap has taken place. This problem will eventually happen if there is no proper method to identify the baby. Maternity wards are handling more and more births. Keeping track of the growing number of babies has become challenging for even the most modem hospitals. The main objective of this project is to develop a RFID Infant Protection System prototype to prevent infant abductions and inadvertent child mismatching. The system should be able to protect against mismatching events by affixing matching RFID tags to mother and child. If the mother is given the wrong child, tlie RFID tag detects tlie mismatch and activates an audible alarm. The advantage of RFID over other teclrnologies like bar code will be stressed out by the author in this report. The author will detail the method approached to carry this project up until it become successful

Electronic Locking Mechanism

The electronic locking mechanism project will include an Arduino microcontroller to control inputs and outputs such as a keypad, an RFID reader, a stepper motor, and an LCD screen. The keypad and RFID reader will be used to verify the authorization for anyone coming through the locked door, the stepper motor will be used to physically lock and unlock the door, and the LCD screen will display the state of the locking mechanism

RFID Based Smart Shopping Trolley with PCB Design

Shopping is captivating and addictive, but standing in never-ending billing queues is a tiring process. Even though various online shopping platforms are growing, retail shopping has never stepped back. To ease the shopping process and eliminate lengthy billing queues, a new product has to be introduced with the appropriate use of technology. This paper summarizes a Radio Frequency Identification-based smart shopping trolley that provides automatic billing and customer satisfaction. The RFID tags on the products are read by the reader present on the shopping cart. The display screen present in the cart provides the cost information and gives the final billing amount. This is then sent to the cashier`s database using a Wi-Fi module and hence saves the customer's time. This entire model is designed on the PCB and simulated

RFID Based Smart Shopping Trolley with PCB Design

Shopping is captivating and addictive, but standing in never-ending billing queues is a tiring process. Even though various online shopping platforms are growing, retail shopping has never stepped back. To ease the shopping process and eliminate lengthy billing queues, a new product has to be introduced with the appropriate use of technology. This paper summarizes a Radio Frequency Identification based smart shopping trolley that provides automatic billing and customer satisfaction. The RFID tags on the products are read by the reader present on the shopping cart. The display screen present in the cart provides the cost information and gives the final billing amount. This is then sent to the cashier`s database using Wi-Fi module and hence saves the customer's time. This entire model is designed on the PCB and simulated

Mobile applications approaches using near field communication support

Nowadays, the society is constantly evolving technologically and new products and technologies appears every day. These technologies allow the well-being of societies and their populations. Mobile gadgets evolution, mainly the smartphones, has always been at the forefront, everyday new devices appear and with them, more recent technologies. These technologies provide a better quality of life of everybody who uses them. People need to have at their disposal a whole array of new features that make their life increasingly more easily. The use of gadgets to simplify the day-to-day is growing and for this people use all disposal types of devices, such as computers, laptops, file servers, smartphones, tablets, and among of others. With the need to use all these devices a problem appears, the data synchronization and a way to simplify the usage of smartphones. What is the advantage of having so much technology available if we need to concern about the interoperability between all devices? There are some solutions to overcome these problems, but most often the advantage brought by these technologies has associated some setup configurations and time is money. Near field communication (NFC) appeared in 2004 but only now has gained the market dominance and visibility, everybody wants to have a NFC based solution, like Google, Apple, Microsoft and other IT giants. NFC is the best solution to overcome some problems like, file synchronization, content sharing, pairing devices, and launch applications without user interaction. NFC arises as a technology that was forgotten, but it has everything to win in every global solutions and markets. In this dissertation two based solutions are presented, an application to transfer money using NFC and an application launcher. Both solutions are an innovation in market because there are nothing like these. A prototype of each application was build and tested. NFC Launcher is already in Android Market. NFC Launcher and Credit Transfer were built, evaluated and are ready for use

Critical Patient Identification Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

The increased focus on patient safety in hospitals has yielded a flood of new technologies and tools seeking to improve the quality of patient care at the point-of-care. Hospitals are complex institutions by nature and are constantly challenged to improve the quality of healthcare delivered to patients while trying to reduce the rate of medical errors and improve patient safety. Some simple mistakes that usually happened are such as patient misidentification, specimen misidentification, wrong medication or anything that can cause the loss of a patient's life. In order to avoid these problems, RFID has coming with its solution. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. It is an automatic identification technology whereby digital data encoded in an RFID tag is captured by a reader using radio waves. In other words, RFID is similar to bar code technology but uses radio waves to capture data from tags, rather than optically scanning the bar codes on a label. The most important characteristic is that RFID does not require the tag or label to be seen to read its stored data. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) uses radio waves to identify different objects. There are a wide range of uses for RFID technology, from identifying retail products to tagging surgical instruments to locating patients. RFID technology has grown in its uses and importance in many industries. As more and more businesses started utilizing RFID technology, the RFID solution itself became much more reliable, easy to use, and less expensive. Many hospitals and healthcare facilities have expanded the use of RFID technology to include tracking patients, maintaining inventory, locating equipment, and monitoring medications

RFID-Cloud Smart Cart System

The main purpose of this work is in reducing the queuing delays in major supermarkets or other shopping centers by means of an Electronic Smart Cart System which will introduce an intellectual approach to billing process through RFID technology. Smart Cart System is a cooperative performance of three separate systems: a website developed for the shopping market, electronic smart cart device and anti-theft RFID gates. This project focuses on developing the electronic smart cart device itself. It involves an embedded electronic hardware that consists of an OLED display, Arduino Mega 2560 board, a specifically designed PCB, a Wi-Fi module, 13.56 MHz HF RFID reader, a power supply and a shopping cart.Comment: to appear as a poster paper in International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, 201

A technical aid for San Rafael school disabled students: intelligent presence detector

The bachelor thesis exposed here attempts to be part of the “Design for All” community, where age, gender, capabilities and culture do not matter. This project is guided by its design rules and methodology. The aim of the project is to develop a functional system which will allow students from San Rafael School to easily recognize themselves, as well as the room they are entering. The system is composed by an open source small motherboard which will be properly programmed to recognize every student going into a room inside the school. This task is carried out by scanning Low Energy Bluetooth beacons which are held by the students. The system then will launch a custom voice message welcoming them by their own name and the name of the room they are entering. The system will also recognize the rest of Bluetooth Low Energy devices around, but only the students will be recognized and get their custom voice message. To do that, the motherboard will be adapted with a small speaker and a modest power supply.El presente Trabajo Fin de Grado pretende formar parte de la comunidad “Diseño para Todos”, en la que edad, género, capacidades y cultura no importan. Este proyecto está guiado por sus doctrinas de diseño y metodología. El propósito de este proyecto es desarrollar un sistema funcional que permitirá a los alumnos del colegio San Rafael reconocer la estancia en la que entran, además de reconocerse a sí mismos. El Sistema está compuesto por una pequeña placa base de licencia de código abierto que será programada adecuadamente para reconocer a cada alumno que entre a una estancia dentro del colegio. Esta tarea será llevaba a cabo escaneando balizas emisoras de Bluetooth de baja energía, portadas por los alumnos. El sistema reproducirá un mensaje de voz personalizado dándoles la bienvenida con su propio nombre y la estancia a la que acceden. El sistema reconocerá de igual forma cualquier dispositivo Bluetooth de baja energía cercano, sin embargo, solo los estudiantes reconocidos obtendrán el mensaje de voz. Para ello, la placa base será adaptada con una fuente de alimentación y un pequeño altavoz.Ingeniería Electrónica Industrial y Automátic