...RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION Introduction RFID is a technology which enables detecting and identifying objects using electromagnetic radio waves. This is processed through exchange of information between a reader and a tag being attached to the object that includes the data associated with the object. This can be used to detect and classify vehicles, animals, patients, shipment goods and airline baggage. [1] RFID technology involves two main components, they are transponders which are also known as tags or labels, contain the relevant information about the object and other the interrogators, also known as readers or transceivers, that extract the data from the tags. These tags can be passive or active tags. Passive tags use the energy from the EM radiation of the reader for its processing, where as active tags receive power from an internal battery for its processing and communication with the reader. An integrated electronic circuit is embedded in tags for storage and processing operations and an antenna that transmits and receives the RF signal. [2] Figure : components of RFID Source : http://www.docstoc.com/docs/17328767/Draft-SP800-98 The tags used in RFID are enabled with read-write operations, with a large storage capacity. Data can be modified any number of times. Tag and reader act as two way radio communication in which each antenna carries the modulation and demodulation of RF signals, with operation frequency ranges from low frequency to UHF. As radio...
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...protection, confined space and rescue equipment. RFID (radio frequency identification) is a wireless data collection technology. RFID technology has the ability to identify, track and assign information to unique items without direct contact or line-of-sight scanning. I-Safe TM consists of passive RFID tags (transponders) that can be scanned by mobile readers (receivers) that synchronize data to a web-based secure information portal. Abstract 1.1 The project at hand being studied is on how radio frequency identification system (RFID) has been implemented to help better manage capital safety’s fall protection equipment. The information system being used has become an important role on how they manage their product to help, cost, improve safety compliance, reduce risk, and enhance safety within government regulations. Capital safety has become the global leader in fall protection. With the use of radio frequency identification device they can tract and maintain their equipment in timely manner. 1.2 Author and Team Member Group Project Assignment #5 Mohamed Mohamed, Lei Thongvivong Travis Boyd, Zach Jones Carl Bisciglia, Yong Yang Table of content 1.3 Target of study 1.4 Capital safety is the organization being studied in our group. They can be identified by their NACIS and SIC codes that put them in industries like: oil and Gas, construction, transportation, utilities, wind energy, general and...
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...Integrating RFID (Radio frequency Identification system) and bar-coding Business systems management in Aero Steel Mike Vargas Applied Business Research Project IS535 Managerial Applications of Information Technology- Session SEP08-Sec O Professor Alice Richmond Contents Abstract 3 Technology Improvement Paradigm 4 Company Data 6 Current Business Issues 7 Topic Research 8 Benefits and Recommendations 11 Conclusion 13 Bibliography 16 Abstract In today’s evolving global markets, construction companies need to develop business solutions to advance bottom-line results, improve operational processes, and recognize problems and solutions quickly, and systematically and effectively implement supply chain management methods. In particular the Structural Steel and Miscellaneous Metals Industry must improve its ability to match the ever increasing demands of the customer-driven market place. As Architectural and Engineering firms set the standards of technology use in their industries so must the steel fabricator to “confirm to owners, the design community, building officials, and the construction industry that a certified structural steel...
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...to travel to anywhere and any places in Chennai. This leads to increase in bus routes which cause confusion to bus users. Although, at present, many routing information systems have been implemented but none of them provide the passenger travel information that they require. As a consequence of the shortages of such significant information, the current bus information services cannot fulfil users need. Current bus information services are based on GPS and operated in licensed frequency band which requires a high implementation and operation cost, these systems are used to provide travel-time approximation only. This paper proposes a system, Real Time Empirical System of Bus Service that can provide valuable information not only bus routes, also provides information of buses based on destination to the passengers. This system is aimed to reduce the operative cost of the existing system. The implementation of Real Time Empirical System of Bus Service involves use of Zigbee and RFID communication technology. This system is operated in 2.4GHz which is ISM band and no external network backbone is required for transmission and reception. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER N o. TITLE ABSTRACT LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 EXISTING SYSTEM 1.2 DRAW BACKS IN EXISTING SYSTEM 1.3 PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT 1.4 BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT 2. REAL TIME EMPIRICAL SYSTEM OF BUS SERVICE 2.1 BRIEF DESCRIPTION 2.2 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE 2.2.1 Bus Module 2.2.2 Bus Stop Module...
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...PURCHASING PROCEDURES, E-PURCHASING, AND SYSTEMS CONTRACTING The purchasing department generates added value and profitability for the entire organization by communicating with suppliers to procure high-quality goods and services at the lowest cost and at the right time. This value is restricted by archaic and inefficient processes involving paper documents and time-consuming tasks. The E-Purchasing Solution automatically sends purchase orders, purchase requisition forms, etc… from SAP ensuring completion and timely approval of documents that are sent to your suppliers. You can easily track documents to verify they have effectively been sent ensuring that no order has been lost or misplaced. ERP FAX EMAIL Purchase order Purchase order copy Purchase order copy EMAIL Purchase department Production planning Accounting department Suppliers Purchase Manager Validation form by e-mail Automatic file Warehouse ERP FAX EMAIL Purchase order Purchase order copy Purchase order copy EMAIL Purchase department Production planning Accounting department Suppliers Purchase Manager Validation form by e-mail Automatic file Warehouse The Purchasing Policy The driving force behind any purchasing corporate policy considers the following objectives: 1. Spend corporate funds wisely. 2. Operate in a professional manner. 3. Purchase the right materials in the right quantities, at the right time and price, from the right source. 4. Practice the highest level of ethical standards...
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...for their constant support and encouragement and last but not the least friends and well-wishers for their help and cooperation and solutions to problems during the course of the project. Prepared By: Kothiya Jaydeep A. Bhamani Karim M. Patel Animesh H. Merchant Sarthi J. Abstract Now a day there is a huge rush in the toll plazas in order to pay the toll tax. Therefore in order to reduce the traffic jam and to save time & also to reduce the money loss of 300 cores / year. We have designed project for the automation in toll tax payment using RFID. We have made the automation of toll plaza using combination of PLC and RFID. This project explains the implantation of automation in toll plaza which is a step towards improving the monitoring of vehicles, travelling in predetermine routes. In this project we focuses on an electronic toll collection (ETC) system using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. This proposed RFID...
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...administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Omega 36:4 (August 2008), pp. 522–534; Special Issue on Logistics: New Perspectives and Challenges; doi 10.1016/j.omega.2006.11.011 Guest Editors — Angappa Gunasekaran and T.C. Edwin Cheng. Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. Used by permission. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03050483 Submitted May 31, 2006; accepted November 11, 2006; published online May 24, 2007. A Strategy for Third-Party Logistics Systems: A Case Analysis Using the Blue Ocean Strategy Changsu Kim,a Kyung Hoon Yang,b and Jaekyung Kim c a School of Management, Yeongnam University, Korea; c.kim@yumail.ac.kr of Information Systems, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 233 Wing Technology Center, 1725 State Street, La...
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...manufacturing world, it is essential for the industrial engineering sector to embrace emerging technologies in order to improve practices that will in turn improve productivity and help reduce inefficiencies. In the industrial engineering sector today there are many new technologies that are capable of assisting engineers in their quest to improve efficiency and productivity in the workplace. Some examples of this are computer aided design, (CAD), computer aided manufacturing, (CAM), 3-D printing, robotics and LED’s. All of these technologies have been about for some time, but in the last few years they have started to come to the forefront in industry and it is believed by many that they will only become better and better over the next decade. To try and explain how emerging technologies can and are indeed helping industrial engineers I will choose just a few examples of these...
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...MANAGEMENT www.ibscdc.org 1 Efficient Project Management at TransWorks Information Services Pvt. Ltd., an Indian-based BPO Company This is a real life case taken from a service industry; it discusses the real life problem faced by a BPO Company. It focusess on the problems faced by the calling agents and the management as a whole, many a times it so happens that the management perceives a problem in a different angle and the solution eludes them; this causes a lot of frustration on the part of employees and management resulting in mass attrition. The real concern today for any call centre company is its high attrition rate; the basic reason being the discord between the management and the employee. The employees look out for a congenial and empathetic management and shift to the other competing companies when offered a good work environment. This case study throws light on one such aspect where a mass attrition was avoided by the top management by strategic and lateral thinking. Pedagogical Objectives • How a manager dealt with such a challenging project with support of his team of 14 fresh trainees • How he managed to save the project and bring about some wonderful changes to glide through the difficult times • How innovation and teamwork can change things for an organisation. Industry Reference No. Year of Pub. Teaching Note Struc.Assign. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) OPS0022 2008 Not Available Not Available the ERP software package, and the problems they faced...
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...Wireless Technology and Communication in Healthcare Biomedical Informatics Program Information Technologies in Medicine and Telehealth Course Instructor: Dr. Bronsburg Submitted by Rajesh Krishnan Written Assignment 1 You are the CIO of ACME Hospital in a rural underserved area. Your HCO recently received resources from a wealthy investor in the community to upgrade the hospitals communications system to a wireless platform. The boards of directors are not convinced this is a good thing, and have mixed feelings on what this will mean for the hospital. They all have cell phones but are unclear of the connection to medicine. Prepare a 4-6 page MS word document explaining to the board of directors what is wireless technology, how it works, its history, use in telemedicine, and what applications these technologies may be used for at the hospital setting. Read Chapter 1 to begin to answer these questions. What is wireless technology? Wireless technology is rapidly growing, and is playing an increasing role in people around the world in healthcare industry. Wireless is a term used to describe telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves instead of wires carry the signal over part or the entire communication pathway. The fourth generation cellular networks have greatly improved data transmission speed. In the meantime, short-range radio such as Bluetooth, Hiperlan, and infrared transmission are helping with wireless broadband multimedia and data communication in both...
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...| Internet of Things | 2014| Pragya Vaishwanar | Aricent Marketing Research Report | Summary It’s fair to say that more people have heard of the “internet of things” than have experienced it. More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting information networks promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks. There is breathless press coverage of the phenomenon—always patiently re-explained by tech pundits as the trend by which all of one’s most mundane possessions will become internet-connected. These are invariably coupled with estimates that the internet of things will be a multi-trillion dollar business. 2014 is really, finally the year that the “internet of things”—that effort to remotely control every object on earth —becomes visible in one’s everyday lives. In a sense the internet of things is already with us. For one thing, anyone with a smartphone has already joined the club. The average smartphone is brimming with sensors—an accelerometer, a compass, GPS, light, sound, altimeter. It’s the prototypical internet-connected listening station, equally adept at monitoring our health, the velocity of our car, the magnitude of earthquakes and countless other things that its creators never envisioned. Yet despite repeated declarations one of the most successful sellers of baubles that help make your home “smart,” Smart-things, has only shipped 10,000 or so units since...
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...high-lighted a new source of revenue for businesses. An industry review in mobile commerce found a variety of current trends and business models that will affect future strategic uses from a project management perspective. This paper explores m-commerce technology from a business perspective; how it is similar and differs from e-commerce technically; and tries identifying and exploring potential strategic uses for this new technology. Introduction The Global Mobile Commerce Forum, which came to include over 100 organisations, had its launch in London on 10 November 1997 and Kevin Duffey was elected as the Executive Chairman. Over 100 companies joined the mobile commerce forum within a year, many forming mobile commerce teams of their own, e.g. Mastercard and Motorola. Of these one hundred companies, the first two were Logica and Cellnet. Member organizations’ such as Nokia, Apple, Alcatel, and Vodafone began a series of trials and collaborations. Mobile commerce services were first delivered in 1997, when the first two mobile-phone enabled Coca Cola vending machines were installed in the Helsinki area in Finland. The machines accepted payment via SMS text messages. The first mobile phone-based banking service was launched in 1997 by Merita Bank of Finland, also using SMS. It is increasingly becoming an understatement to say that the Internet and related technologies are changing the ways we live. Clearly, these technologies will affect peoples’ lives in ways that have yet to...
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...consumer industries such as textiles and clothing (Lowson, King & Hunter 1999). One of the impacts is that the contemporary North American and European textile and apparel industries suffer immense competition from foreign producers (Yan & Fiorito 2002). As early as the mid-1980s, imports were estimated to account for close to 50% of consumption (Lowson, King & Hunter 1999). As most imported textiles are produced with very low labor expense, huge amounts of inexpensive products can be supplied in the domestic market. Considering this situation, competitiveness in cost and quality continue to be key issues for textile manufacturers. In order to significantly reduce time and cost in the supply chain, the industry needed to become more focused on consumers by developing a supply chain management process that would be demand driven and production that would be synchronized to replenish product at the consumer's pull rate (Lovejoy 2001). Today, consumers desire to personalize the style, fit and color of the clothes they buy, and require high-quality customized products at low prices with faster delivery (Lee & Chen 1999). New manufacturing technologies such as 3D body scanners, CAD/CAM systems, and digital textile printers have played a key role in increasing the effectiveness, flexibility, agility, and precision of production. Garment Industry Information Technology Upgrades Garment manufacturing technology should...
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...Victorinox is therefore mainly faced with cases of non-deceptive counterfeiting. The risk of Victorinox becoming victim of counterfeiting because of careless supply chain management is negligible because most of its construction sites are centralised in Switzerland. The author would therefore recommend that Victorinox should focus their strategies on the demand rather than the supply side. Since Vicotrinox cannot offer lower prices than the counterfeiters, its products have to convince with high quality. The author’s proposition is that Victorinox should focus stronger on communication and product strategies. Certain potentials can be identified in Victorinox’s communication strategy. The author suggests establishing a more aggressive advertisement strategy. Victorinox has to stress its quality, its life time warranty and the conditions under which their pocket knives are produced. Furthermore, consumers need to be made aware of the risks that counterfeits can...
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...Some threats and challenges Wal-Mart faces include increased competition, slow market growth, entry of new competitors, loss of sales to substitutes, growing bargaining power of suppliers, growing bargaining power of customers, adverse demographic changes, restrictive trade policies, and new regulatory requirements. Wal-Mart faces competition from general merchandise retailers, warehouse clubs, and supermarket retailers. They are also facing challenges from the discount retail industry. These challenges are coming from both inside the United States and internationally. The top competitors are Target, Kmart, Circuit City, and Bed Bath and Beyond to name a few. Even Sam’s Club is facing stiff competition from Costco. On the supermarket side of the industry, Wal-Mart is facing competition from Kroger’s, Albertson’s, and Safeway, even though these stores are finding it difficult to compete with Wal-Mart’s low prices. Some of the current challenges Wal-Mart is facing is the ability to expand in areas previously they have not been able to. Currently Wal-Mart really doesn’t have any more room in the United States to grow. Additionally, if they add more stores in the United States they will potentially face an issue with taking sales away from each other. An area in the United States that they could expand into where they have failed in the past is larger cities like New York City. The possible reason behind this is Wal-Marts opposition to unionized labor. Another possible...
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