Integrated Port eManagement and Monitoring System Using Radio Frequency Identification

摘要

Transportation is an essential aspect to a developing country bringing service to all the people even in the countryside. The purpose of this study is to automate port services in monitoring and supervising the increasing number of passengers, improve port services like tracing passenger, ship crew members and generating real time voyage reports. The target output of the study is to produce system features of having integrated modules for passenger ticketing, check-in/boarding, baggage billing, and tracking appropriate passenger accommodation. RFID was used in identifying and authenticating passenger tags supported by Electronic Product Code (EPC) Class 1 Gen2 standard. The hardware components were interfaced using computer program modules for monitoring passenger accommodation. The passenger ticketing was developed as a web-based application using PHP, MySQL, CodeIgniter with online booking. System testing was successfully conducted to validate the performance of the sensor and the UHF reader used for better analysis and interpretation of the desired features as designed. The report print-out generated in a form of manifest or list of passengers correspond to the embarkation and disembarkation process. The result of the experiment in a ship environment setup showed localization of using RFID technology suited to improve services at the port area.