St Mary’s Hospital

Asset Management Project

Group Members:

Wesley Deneke

Evan Kirkconnell

Jarrod Bourlon

Overview

St Mary’s Hospital will

soon open a gift shop and

asked us to develop an

asset management

system incorporating

RFID technology.

The Project was to create a Point Of Sale GUI and

Database Management System that utilizes RFID.

The Goals are to track assets through tagged products

as well as manage employees with a RFID name badge.

Project Tasks

DevelopmentGathering

Requirements Integration

RFID Requirements

Integrate Alien ALR-9800 reader with POS.

Have minimum Radio Frequency noise.

- Trigger device only when needed.

Scan tags removing duplicate reads.

- Only show tags that are in view.

Mobile inventory management using

Symbol M9090 handheld reader.

Point of Sale Requirements

Interface

a. Shows products in a table with a price and category

b. The ability to sell items with or without RFID

c. Large, intuitive graphics for elderly users.

Transaction Processing

a. Products with or without RFID tags

b. Add (“Check-in”) items to the products table.

c. Purge (“Check-out”) items from the products table.

d. Return unwanted or damaged items.

Security

- User access using login id or employee badge.

Database Requirements

Run Daily, Monthly, or Yearly sales reports.

a. Track dates of price changes.

b. Track price changes of sales.

c. Report the total sales per product.

Maintain categories of products.

Able to contain products with or without RFID

tags.

Maintain a table of current employee login, badge

EPC and password.

POS Development

RFID

ReaderDatabasePOS

POS (continued)

Unique design built with Tag Centric

components

Uses Tag Centric to connect with RFID

API

Utilized Java Swing Library for Graphics

Built for use on touch screen

Manages Database via JDBC connection

Database Development

Local JDBC

Connection

Connection

Class

-Connect methods

-Select methods

-Update methods

POS Access Database

Database (continued)

Access was used to allow for more end user accessibility.

A relationship between products and categories was created.

A transaction at the sales counter will purge a product from the database or insert a product into the database.

A primary key was created for RFID as well as non-RFID products

The Handheld reader

Connect to network via

Wi-Fi connection

Ability to check in

products with “real-time”

data synchronization

Ability to query the

database for a products

price and RFID

Symbol M9090 handheld

Windows Mobile 5.0

RFID & Wifi Connectivity

Compact database

.net Compact Framework

GoalsReader

Handheld’s Shortcomings

Limited memory, processing capabilities

Lack of API connection classes for

database.

Limited and over-dependent Network

connection capabilities

Handheld Capabilities

As of now the handheld reader can poll for tags when the trigger is passed.

The reader has the ability to save the reads in multiple formats (XML, flat file)

The reader can also store data on its own compact database using SQL mobile.

Further development will lead to the ability for real-time synchronization via a web service.

Integration

The project was a success!!

St Mary’s will soon use this project as a

starting block for there asset management

The final step will be handing the project

over to St. Mary’s employees for further

development.