Automatic Identification Technology Research Articles

基于数字图像处理的银行卡号智能识别技术

数字识别系统是现代化智能管理领域的重要组成部分，其作用特别体现在日常生活的智能化和数字化方面。本论文以我国各银行的银行卡为研究对象，提出了一种基于数字图像处理的银行卡号自动识别技术。该技术的主要目的是实现银行卡号信息的自动提取并将卡号以文本文件形式输出，以切合实际应用。其主要组成部分为：图像采集、图像预处理、数字号码定位、字符特征提取、字符标记、字符分割、字符识别等。通过实验测试，发现该技术可以实现85.6%以上的准确识别率。 The digital recognition system is an important part of the modern intelligent management field. Its role is particularly reflected in the intelligence and digital aspects of daily life. With the bank card of China’s Banks as the research object, this paper proposed a bank card number automatic identification technology based on digital image processing. The main purpose of this technology is to achieve the automatic extraction of bank card number information as a text file output for practical applications. Its main components are image acquisition, image preprocessing, digital number positioning, character feature extraction, character recognition, character segmentation and character recognition, etc. Through the experimental test, it is found that the technology can achieve more than 85.6% accuracy.

RFID-based Drug Management and Monitoring System, Case of Public Hospitals in Tanzania, A Review Paper

Radio frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification technology that enables tracking of people and objects. Recently, RFID technology has been deployed in hospital environment for patient and equipment tracking, surgical equipment monitoring, medication monitoring and improving health record access in emergency cases. The main advantages RFID technology are to provide resource optimization, quality customers’ care, enhanced accuracy, efficient and effective business processes and healthcare processes. The pharmacy department undergoes challenges such as complex manual work of record keeping and inventory management. The RFID technology can be deployed in pharmacy hospital unit to automate pharmacy process. In this work we present a review on current pharmacy management practices in the case study of public hospital in Tanzania, review on different research work to address the pharmacy challenges and finally proposed a system to overcome the limitation identified in the current systems.

Probabilistic travel time progression and its application to automatic vehicle identification data

Travel time has been identified as an important variable to evaluate the performance of a transportation system. Based on the travel time prediction, road users can make their optimal decision in choosing route and departure time. In order to utilise adequately the advanced data collection methods that provide real-time different types of information, this paper is aimed at a novel approach to the estimation of long roadway travel times, using Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) technology. Since the long roads contain a large number of scanners, the AVI sample size tends to reduce and, as such, computing the distribution for the total road travel time becomes difficult. In this work, we introduce a probabilistic framework that extends the deterministic travel time progression method to dependent random variables and enables the off-line estimation of road travel time distributions. In the proposed method, the accuracy of the estimation does not depend on the size of the sample over the entire corridor, but only on the amount of historical data that is available for each link. In practice, the system is also robust to small link samples and can be used to detect outliers within the AVI data.

Factors affecting selection decision of auto-identification technology in warehouse management: an international Delphi study

Selecting an automatic identification and data capture (auto-ID) technology, for example RFID and barcodes, is a long-term investment, and it contributes to improving operational efficiency, achieving cost savings and creating opportunities for higher revenues. We identified the set of factors that affect the technology-selection decision for warehouses through a literature review. Then, to investigate the critical factors, and their relative importance to the decision-making process, we conducted a modified two-round Delphi study with a worldwide panel of experts (107) including academics, industry practitioners and consultants in auto-ID technologies. The results show that there are 54 key factors under six categories: organisational factors, operational factors, structural factors, resources, external environment and technology. We verified the results of the Delphi study with interviews carried out with 19 experts across the world. Based on the Delphi study and the interviews’ findings, we developed a multi-stage selection framework for auto-ID technology.

Fabrication of a planar spiral antenna using direct writing technology

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a non-contact automatic identification technology that allows transmission of information and power via radio frequency signals. It has advantages including a short recognition distance, favorable efficiency, and reliable security. Planar antennas are an important aspect of RFID tags, and are usually manufactured by winding, screen-printing, and etching methods. These production processes typically involve thermal/mechanical stresses, chemical corrosion and other manufacturing processes which restrict the choice of substrate. On the other hand, direct writing technology provides a number of advantages, including no restrictions on the substrate, reduced costs, and simplified manufacturing processes. Because of these advantages, we propose a fabrication process for a spiral antenna using direct writing technology of a conductive material. The direct writing system was developed using a dispensing system and a 3-axis stage system. Consequently, a planar spiral antenna for an NFC tag was fabricated. The inductance of the fabricated spiral antenna was in good agreement with the designed value.

Implementation of Wireless RFID for Production Line Management System in a Real Environment

The growing number of sales and demands for output in the production line has led to an increase in difficulties in production management. This paper introduces the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or Automatic Identification (Auto ID) technology at 2.4 GHz frequency to improve the production line management system in the electronics industry. A case study approach was set up, and a test was run in a real industry production line environment using RFID-based systems, namely, passive reader (PR) and passive and active reader (PAR) systems. A comparison between the current system (i.e., barcode-based system) and the RFID-based system in production line showed that PR had 94.7 % efficiency while PAR had 90 % efficiency. The set-up was used to study in depth the functionality, advantages, compatibility, complexity, extendibility, and data output of the developed system. The in-depth test run studied the experience and identified the challenges that will be faced in the development and implementation of a wireless RFID-based system.

Designing an Infrastructure by RFID Based Hybrid Technology Smart Wristband (HTSW) to enhance the Quick Rescue Operation in Industrial Accident

Rescue operation plan playing a vital rule to saving maximum number of life in the time of natural or manmade accident in Industry. Because of high density of labour in industry, possible fatality is increasing day by day. Around 11,000 workers die each year in industrial accidents in Bangladesh. In the last few years, the fastest growing industry of Bangladesh, garments sector has witnessed many industrial accidents specially factory fires and building collapse where many people died and wounded. However, fire service and civil defence has no modern technology to face this kind of big disaster in industry. This paper, firstly discuss about recent industrial disaster in Bangladesh specially garments sector and try to find out the obstacles of quick rescue operation after a disaster occurs. It is important to know how many people are present in a damaged building or structure that needs to evacuate. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is a wireless Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) technology and could be use in the immediate or aftermath of major disasters. This paper proposed, an infrastructure and a wristband model named “Hybrid Technology Smart Wristband (HTSW)” where RFID, RF-transceiver, Microcontroller and health sense technologies are integrated. In normal condition, HTSW will help the employee management system and in disaster situation, it will enhance the quick rescue operation by identifying the approximate location of dead and live injured person, making plan for transferring injured and trapped victims. In the time of regular and disaster situation, the operation procedures of proposed HTSW infrastructure have explained here.

A secure RFID mutual authentication protocol for healthcare environments using elliptic curve cryptography.

Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) is an automatic identification technology, which can be widely used in healthcare environments to locate and track staff, equipment and patients. However, potential security and privacy problems in RFID system remain a challenge. In this paper, we design a mutual authentication protocol for RFID based on elliptic curve cryptography(ECC). We use pre-computing method within tag's communication, so that our protocol can get better efficiency. In terms of security, our protocol can achieve confidentiality, unforgeability, mutual authentication, tag's anonymity, availability and forward security. Our protocol also can overcome the weakness in the existing protocols. Therefore, our protocol is suitable for healthcare environments.

Special issue: emerging technologies for intelligent transportation

Special issue: emerging technologies for intelligent transportation

Big data analytics and business analytics

Over the past few decades, with the development of automatic identification, data capture and storage technologies, people generate data much faster and collect data much bigger than ever before in business, science, engineering, education and other areas. Big data has emerged as an important area of study for both practitioners and researchers. It has huge impacts on data-related problems. In this paper, we identify the key issues related to big data analytics and then investigate its applications specifically related to business problems.

Enhanced-Bivium Algorithm for RFID System

RFID (radio frequency identification) is an emerging technology for automatic identification of physical objects using radio frequency. The security and privacy of the system is increasingly concerned and some light-weight encryption schemes such as Trivium and Bivium have been proposed. In this paper, the internal structure of Bivium is exploited and generalized to an algorithm called Bivium-Model. It is shown that the original Bivium has its inherent imperfections due to the improper parameter selection. A set of better parameters are given out to fix the security vulnerability of original Bivium. Emulation results also show that the Enhanced-Bivium algorithm achieves lower power consumption and lower die size.

Deployment of printed RFID in Egyptian apparel retailing

The purpose of this research is to investigate the printed RFID technology and its deployment in the Egyptian fashion retailing, discover the benefits and point out the barriers preventing the proper deployment of this technology in the Egyptian apparel retailing market. RFID stands for "Radio-Frequency identification", which is an innovative automatic identification technology, it identifies and gathers data without human intervention, or data entry, RFID systems consist of tags, readers and software. RFID is referred throughout the world as a replacement for electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags and are used to prevent shoplifting. Apparel retailers claim that EAS systems are cheap, the system installation cost is average, and the cost for securing each piece is near zero, the reason for that is that each key is used for almost unlimited number of times. However, the results show that using conventional EAS is not effective in securing store's goods, and it causes damage for about 0.05% of garments. Recently many technologies have been studied to overcome the cost barriers; one among them was “Printed RFID” technology. An innovation in conductive ink allowed RFID tag providers to print RFID antenna on tagging substrates, instead of using a conventional solid-copper antenna, which was more expensive and less flexible. The study used semi-structured interviews for data collection from apparel retailers and print houses managers in the Egyptian market, in order to overcome the research problem, which is the lack of studies investigated the deployment of RFID technology in the apparel retailing, precisely within the Egyptian industry. In addition to highlighting the benefits of printed RFID deployment as an alternate to EAS and etched RFID tags, because of printed RFID stability, reliability, cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and its low environmental impact compared to etching method. In addition to investigating the barriers limiting the deployment of RFID tags despite mentioned advantages, which is according to interviews analysis, resulted in a full ignorance of RFID technology itself among apparel retailers and Egyptian print houses, which require more research on the RFID marketing, and reduction of printed RFID tags' cost and the chips as well.

Research and Design of Abnormal Sound Online Monitoring and Positioning System for Substation Equipment

In order to further improve the operation reliability of substation site equipment, abnormal sound online monitoring and positioning system for substation equipment was designed. This system consists of on-site monitoring unit, system server and client three parts. Three key technologies were researched and developed: substation abnormal sound automatic identification technology, substation abnormal sound video positioning technology and substation abnormal sound message warning system technology. Abnormal sound online monitoring and positioning system for substation equipment has reasonable structure and good results.

Identity crisis: Global challenges of identity protection in a networked world

Modern identity is valuable, multi-functional and complex. Today we typically manage multiple versions of self, made visible in digital trails distributed widely across offline and online spaces. Yet, technology-mediated identity leads us into crisis. Enduring accessibility to greater and growing personal details online, alongside increases in both computing power and data linkage techniques, fuel fears of identity exploitation. Will it be stolen? Who controls it? Are others aggregating or analysing our identities to infer new data about us without our knowledge or consent? New challenges present themselves globally around these fears, as manifested by concerns over massive online data breaches and automated identification technologies, which also highlight the conundrum faced by governments about how to safeguard individuals' interests on the Web while striking a fair balance with wider public interests. This paper reflects upon some of these problems as part of the inter-disciplinary, transatlantic ‘SuperIdentity’ project investigating links between cyber and real-world identifiers. To meet the crisis, we explore the relationship between identity and digitisation from the perspective of policy and law. We conclude that traditional models of identity protection need supplementing with new ways of thinking, including pioneering ‘technical-legal’ initiatives that are sensitive to the different risks that threaten our digital identity integrity. Only by re-conceiving identity dynamically to appreciate the increasing capabilities for connectivity between different aspects of our identity across the cyber and the physical domains, will policy and law be able to keep up with and address the challenges that lie ahead in our progressively networked world.

An overview of anti-collision protocols for radio frequency identification devices

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a new type of non-contact automatic identification technology. Due to its low energy consumption, low cost, and its adaptability to harsh environments, it has been applied to many fields. In the RFID systems, data collision is inevitable when the reader sends a communication request and multiple tags respond with simultaneous data transmission. Data collision is prone to causing problems such as: identification delay, spectrum resource waste, a decreased system throughput rate, etc. Therefore, an efficient, stable anti-collision protocol is crucial for RFID systems. This research analysed the current research into RFID anti-collision protocols and summarised means for its improvement through the mechanism of implementation of different types anti-collision protocols. Finally, a new direction is proposed for the future development of RFID anti-collision protocol systems.

Design of Tool Automatic Identification and Database Management System Based on RFID

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a non-contact automatic identification technology, without human intervention. It is convenient to apply and it can identify fast moving objects. Around the tool and the tool information, the problem of low operational efficiency and low degree of tool management information are still unsolved. In this paper, RFID technology is applied in the tool automatic identification and management system. The tool automatic identification and database management system based on RFID is built. The application model, tool information database design and Upper Computer management software of the RFID in tool identification and management are analyzed. The overall architecture and the software function module of the system are constructed. The database management system is developed by the LabVIEW software. The interface design between LabVIEW and Access database is completed by using ActiveX, as a result, the information of Access database can be written-in and read-out by the management system. Meanwhile, the communication protocol between the Upper Computer and Lower Computer is programed that based on VISA. The RS232 is applied to make the communication between the Upper Computer and Lower Computer come true. Finally, take the SECO's Solid Carbide Ball-end Milling Cutter as an example to have an experiment. Through the experiment, the system proved to be with high reliability and efficiency.

The System Development and Implementation of Design Drawings Management and Archive Combination

In the digital and information times, the use of computer networks and related technology to the production of our work has brought great changes. This article describes the use of computer networks and graphics processing technology, automatic identification technology, database management technology to manage and archive the plot combine to increase productivity of case.

Modernizing Agricultural Methods: Automatic Identification Traceability Technology and the Small Scale Limited Resource Farmer

With the propagation of technology and the expansion of the possible applications of technology, extension professionals are presented with opportunities to use these tools to help small scale limited resource farmers modernize their businesses. This article illustrates how one type of Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), is being used to help a small scale limited resource produce farmer. The current success of RFID use for this farmer is promising towards pushing for future more widespread efforts to provide similar technology to other small scale limited resource farmers.

Real-time information driven intelligent navigation method of assembly station in unpaced lines

This paper considers the assembly station as a breakthrough to improve the real-time information driven control and optimization of assembly process in unpaced asynchronous line. By adopting automatic identification technologies, the overall architecture of the real-time intelligent navigation of assembly station (INoAS) is put forward. Under this architecture, three core services, namely the real-time assembly operating guidance service (OGS), collaborative production service (CPS) among assembly stations and real-time queuing service (RQS) of the jobs at each station, are designed to provide optimal and dynamical navigation for assembly activities for each station. Then, the disturbances and exceptions could be timely captured by installing the INoAS at each station, and the operating guidance, collaborative production information sharing and real-time queuing could be easily achieved. The presented architecture and services of INoAS will facilitate the real-time information driven process monitor and control between the line and stations.

Role of automatic identification in the development of process approach

The article discusses the use of automatic identification technologies to generate data models used in the development of the process approach. The possibility of optimizing business processes through the introduction of RFID systems providing continuous automated data collection and analysis is considered and compared with the planned results. Received information from automatic identification systems at all control points of considered business processes can be used in order to optimize and accompany the material flow at all stages of the life cycle of products and at all levels of the supply chain.