RFID and RTLS-Based Human Resource Monitoring System

Human resources are indispensable assets as well as the livewire of any organization. For the attainment of set goals, every organization must device adequate, effective and efficient means of managing its human resources. Keeping log of personnel arrival and exit times as well as in and out movements are valuable tasks that promote objective decision on human resource performance evaluation. This paper reports on the development of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Real-Time Location Tracking System (RTLS)-based real-life personnel monitoring system. Real Time Location System (RTLS) based approach was used for accurate and reliable estimation of the distance and coordinate location of personnel at any instant. The simulation was performed on Dell Inspiron 1525 system with Alien ALR-8800 RFID readers and passive RFID tags operating at 865-867MHz frequency on Windows 7 platform. Java programming language and NetBeans IDE 7.2 on JDK1 7.0 (Java Development Kit) served as the front-end while My Structured Query Language (MySQL) relational database and PHP5 served as the back-ends. Analyses of the results of case studies of real-time data on the arrival and departure times, availability period, among others for some selected personnel of a unit in a Nigerian University show the adequacy and the feasibility of the proposed system for a reliable real-life personnel monitoring and control.