BLOCS: A smart book-locating system based on RFID in libraries

Kuen Liang Sue, Yi Min Lo

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Abstract

Recently, the wireless location system become an important issue. However, the previous location mechanisms were seldom proposed for locating applications in library. In this paper, we present a smart Book-LOCating System called BLOCS with two location modes using RFID technology - single book mode and book list mode. The single book mode provides users to find the bookshelf containing the desired book which was misplaced. The book list mode offers a corresponding list of the bookshelves and the misplaced books regularly for a librarian to localize all misplaced books in the wrong bookshelves. The simulation results show that the locating accuracies of the single book mode and the book list mode are more than 90% and 85%, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - ICSSSM'07
Subtitle of host publication2007 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
EventICSSSM'07: 2007 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management - Changdu, China
Duration: 9 Jun 200711 Jun 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings - ICSSSM'07: 2007 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management

Conference

ConferenceICSSSM'07: 2007 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangdu
Period9/06/0711/06/07

Keywords

  • Location system
  • RFID
  • Sensing network

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