Performance of RFID Tags used in Automated Retail Store
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https://doi.org/10.18486/ijcsnt/2.2.023Keywords:
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tags, Retail Store, Item TrackingAbstract
In recent times the applications of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology have started emerging in diverse areas comprising access control, inventory management, supply chain management, equipment tracking, personnel tracking, toll collection, and items security in departmental stores. An important application that holds great promise in future is in big retail stores where RFID tagged items can be billed automatically at the Point of Sales thereby eliminating the long queues that are observed especially on weekends. In this paper we present the design and development of an automated retail store based on RFID. We further perform experiments on different types of RFID tags that can be used for tagging the items in retail stores to compare their performance and applicability. It is observed that the use of RFID tags in retail stores improves the efficiency, accuracy and security at the point of sales and the proposed system can be easily adopted in modern retail stores without incorporating many changes in the existing infrastructure.
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