GuardianAngel: An RFID-based indoor guidance and monitoring system

Abstract

The current ubiquitous presence of RFID tech nology opens up possibilities for new applications. The RFID enabled indoor pervasive environment is the area of interest for our study. We explore the system requirements for an RFID enabled pervasive system and develop a middle ware called GuardianAngel to support a monitoring and guidance system for use in an assisted living environment. This paper describes a prototype of such a system, using real RFID devices in a proof of-concept to evaluate feasibility and emulated RFID devices to evaluate scalability. Our study illustrates the feasibility of such a system, demonstrating greater than 99% accuracy in situ with a confined testbed, and with above 93% accuracy estimated when emulated in a larger environment.

Design and Development of Door Access System using Radio Frequency Identification

“…However, it is not very difficult to hack secret password now and recognizable ID cards may get lost, hence making these techniques very questionable. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a revolutionary innovation that can be utilized to evolve the entrance control system [4][5]. It provides a automation in various processes ranging from industrial sectors to home control.…”

RFID Based Security and Access Control System

“…The same procedure is repeated when the vehicle is leaving the parking lot. Nova Ahmed [4] has described RFID based indoor guidance and monitoring system known as GuardianAngel in pervasive environment. The beauty of the system is that it can generate dynamic queries in real time through user interface.…”