LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING RFID

RFID is an acronym for Radio Frequency Identification. RFID is one member in the family of Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) technologies and is a fast and reliable means of identifying just about any material object. RFID is increasingly used with biometric technologies for security. Primarily, the two main components involved in a Radio Frequency Identification system are the Transponder (tags that are attached to the object) and the Interrogator (RFID reader). Communication between the RFID reader and tags occurs wirelessly and generally doesnt require a line of sight between the devices. The significant advantage of all types of RFID systems is the non contact, non-line-of-sight nature of the technology. Tags can be read through a variety of substances such as snow, fog, ice, paint, crusted grime, and other visually and environmentally challenging conditions, where barcodes or other optically read technologies would be useless. Hence this project can be very much useful and can be implemented in real time applications. The RFID reader will be interfaced with the microcontroller through serial interface. In this project, the RFID reader will be present at the librarian to maintain the books taken by the students of that particular college or any educational institute. Each book will be attached with a RFID tag. Similarly the students of that particular institute will be provided with RFID tags. These RFID tags will contain the information like name of the student, year of joining, branch of specialization etc. Whenever a student wishes to take a particular book from the library, the librarian places the tag present in the book near the reader so that the reader reads the information of the book and stores in the database. At the same time, the student has to show his RFID tag to the reader and the reader reads the student details. Thus the book will be issued in the name of that particular student. In this way, the task of the librarian in issuing the books to the students becomes very simple. The system contains three switches: one switch is to issue the book to the student, second switch is to be pressed when the student wants to return the book and the third switch is to count the number of books and also display the total number of books in the library.

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE TOOLS: Software Tools: 1. Keil compiler 2. Orcad. 3. Proload Hardware Tools: 1. Microcontroller AT89S52. 2. RFID reader 3. MAX232 4. LCD 5. Buzzer and driver circuit 6. RTC

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