RFID Applications: An Introductory and Exploratory Study

TL;DR

This paper explores RFID technology's main components and applications across various industries, emphasizing its benefits in resource optimization and process efficiency, with a focus on developing a hospital patient movement model.

Contribution

It provides an overview of RFID components and applications, laying groundwork for a mobile hospital patient tracking model based on RFID technology.

Findings

RFID components include tags, antennas, and readers.

RFID applications span healthcare, security, logistics, and more.

Enhancements in RFID improve resource use and operational efficiency.

Abstract

RFID is not a new technology and has passed through many decades of use in military, airline, library, security, healthcare, sports, animal farms and other areas. Industries use RFID for various applications such as personal/vehicle access control, departmental store security, equipment tracking, baggage, fast food establishments, logistics, etc. The enhancement in RFID technology has brought advantages that are related to resource optimization, increased efficiency within business processes, and enhanced customer care, overall improvements in business operations and healthcare. Our research is part of a big project; its aim is to produce a model for mobile technology implementation of hospital patients' movement process. However, the focus of this paper is to explore the main RFID components, i.e. the tag, antenna and reader. The results of the investigations conducted on the three RFID components will be used to develop our research model.