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
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
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