Browsing by Author "Irankunda, Deo"

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    Development of radio frequency identification based library management and anti-theft system: a case of east African community region
    (NM-AIST, 2021-10) Irankunda, Deo
    Radio Frequency Identification Systems are becoming very useful and helpful in our daily life due to their advantages such as reduction of human error, theft prevention, time-consuming reduction, the auto-identification of targeted objects and data collection, find easily misplaced items as well as automating the processes business. Radio Frequency Identification systems have been applied in different areas including in library to manage items and library operations. Different approaches have been adopted to increase the efficiency of library management system in the East African region unfortunately, some challenges including theft of library item, pages removal, non-customer satisfaction, high cost of used system are persisting. To address the challenges an RFID system has been developed for East African Community Library. It used Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID readers and tags capable to send and receive data at a read range of 6m. The aim of this system is to speed up all library transactions, improve customer’s satisfaction and keep a track of all library items. It enabled also librarians to have videos records of all library operations which were used to identify page removing actors and other unwanted behavior. The developed system will facilitate users borrowing and returning library items with the help of RFID-enabled modules without more human intervention and issue an alert if a non-issued item is detected when user cross the library entrance or exit. The Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) camera and time-stamped access of library books provided with this developed system, will help to have video records of all library operations and facilitate to detect the actioner of the pages removal.
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    Development of the RFID Based Library Management and Anti-Theft System:A Case of East African Community (EAC) Region
    (International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering, 2021-05) Irankunda, Deo; Sinde, Ramadhani; Mduma, Neema; Dida, Mussa
    Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems are becoming very useful in our daily life due to its advantages such as reduction of human error, theft prevention, time consuming reduction, the auto identification of targeted objects, business processes automation etc. RFID systems has been applied in library to manage items and library operations. Different approaches have been adopted in library management system in the East African region unfortunately some challenges including theft, pages removal, non-customer satisfaction, high cost of used system etc. are still persisting. To address these challenges, an RFID based library management and anti-theft system has been developed to East African Community (EAC) library. It focused on the use of Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band which enable readers and tags to transmit and receive data at longrange. The developed system facilitates users to borrowand return library items using RFID modules and enable librarians to monitor, record library activities and prevent no issued item to cross the library entrance or exit.