TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ABSTRACT iii

LIST OF FIGURES vii

LIST OF ABBREVATIONS viii

1. INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Existing System 2

1.2 Proposed System 2

1.3 Power Supply 3

1.3.1 Block Diagram 3

1.3.2 Circuit Diagram 3

1.4 Working Principle 4

1.4.1 Transformer 4
1.4.2 Bridge Rectifier 4

1.4.3 Filter 5

1.4.4 IC Voltage Regulator 5

2. PIC MICROCONTROLLER 7

2.1 Microcontroller 7

2.1.1 PIC Description 8

2.1.2 Core Features 8

 2.1.3 Peripheral Features 10

2.2 Architecture of PIC 16F877 10

2.2.1 Pin diagram of 16F877 12

2.3 EEPROM 13

2.4 Timers 14

2.5 Analog to Digital Converter 15

2.6 PIC Start Plus Programmer 16

3. RFID 17

3.1 History of RFID 17

3.1.1 RFID Description 11

3.1.2 RFIDs working Principle 17

3.2 Components of RFID 18

3.2.1 Antenna 19

3.2.2 Tags 19
3.2.3 EPC Tags 22

3.2.4 RF Transceiver 23

3.3 Applications for RFID 23

3.4 The Advantages of RFID Over Bar Coding 23

4. VISUAL BASIC 25

4.1 Introduction 25
 4.1.1 Advantages Offered By VB 25

4.2 Visual Basic Client Application 26

4.3 Communication with the RFID Reader 26

4.3.1 Introduction 26

4.3.2 RFID reader serial protocol definition 26

4.3.3 Request Format Packet 27

5. SIMULATION RESULT 29

6. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK 33

6.1 Conclusion 33

6.2 Future Work 33

7. REFERENCES 34