applications in the case of the car; all cars that have a built in immobiliser have a special key that must be used to start the car’s engine. This key contains an RFID chip and the lock for the ignition contains a reader, the correct chip must be placed next to the reader in the ignition before the car engine will start. The scenario that this report will cover is the fire service and the tracking of the different pieces of equipment that they use. The scenario is that the fire service is called to out and an engine is dispatched with all the appropriate equipment for the type of call that they have received. Examples of calls could be a fire meaning that they would have to bring equipments to stop a fire such as fire retardant suits, water hose, ladders, axes etc. Sometimes the call could be a rescue call meaning that the equipment needed would be climbing materials, ladders, tools for lifting rubble if a building has clasped and tools for removing people from vehicles. The main problem is that there is so much equipment for each type of call, in some cases different fire teams are called to the one incident meaning that there is equipment belonging to different stations in the one area and mix over’s can occur in many cases one team takes back other teams equipment. As much of the equipment that is used is very expensive it is very hard to replace the equipment. This is a wide spread issue that affects many different organisations, most affected are “on call” services such as roadside repair companies or on call mechanics. The problem is that the main part of the organisation is called out of the office/warehouse/factory/garage and must take the necessary equipment and return with all the equipment. If items go missing on each instance they must be replaced, this cost can build up over a period of time and affect the organisations profits. 1.2 Aims The main aim of this project is explore and demonstrate location tracking systems in relation to RFID tag tacking. For the purpose of tracking items on a small scale (i.e. tracking equipment in a building) a RFID system is the best solution. The main objective of the project is to create and implement a system that can be used to track fire fighter equipment. The proposed solution is to create a general purpose system that can be used for the tracking of the different pieces of equipment that the organisation uses when on call, for this scenario it
10 place a opaque bottle of water in front of the tag Tags appeared on screen but with a weak reading from the radar and after a distance of 2 meters the tags could not be read 11 place a clear bottle in front of the tag Tags appeared on the screen at all distances 11.01 place a clear bottle in front of the tag wrapped with paper Tags appeared on screen but with a weak reading from the radar and after a distance of 2 meters the tags could not be read 12 place a thick piece of fabric in front of the tag Tags appeared on screen but with a weak reading from the radar and as the distance between the tag and the radar increased the signal got weaker 12.01 place the tag into a coat pocket Tags appeared on screen but with a weak reading from the radar and as the distance between the tag and the radar increased the signal got weaker 13 place the tag behind a piece of wood Tags appeared on screen at all distance 14 a piece of plastic in front of the tag Tags appeared on screen but with a weak reading from the radar and as the distance between the tag and the radar increased the signal got weaker 15 place a piece of plastic coved with paper in front of the tag Tags appeared on screen but with a weak reading from the radar and as the distance between the tag and the radar increased the signal got weaker 16 place a piece of tinfoil in front of the tag (non-shiny side) Tags appeared on screen with a weak signal from the radar, the tags not being read at 4 meters distance between the radar and the tag 16.01 a piece of tinfoil in front of the tag (shiny side) Tags appeared on screen with a extremely week signal and the tags could not be read at a distance of 30 centimetres 16.02 warp the tag in tinfoil (shiny side out) Tags not be read at any distance 17 place a tag in a bag Tags appeared on screen with a weak signal and could not be read at a distance of 2 meters 18 place a tag behind glass (window of the test room) Tags appeared on screen with strong signal 19 place the tag on a wall outside the room Tags appeared on screen with a weak signal 20 place the tag behind a person Tags appeared on screen with a weak signal static