Smart Warehouse: An RFID-IoT Approach

Abstract: Efficiency of a warehouse plays a pivotal role in the product delivery cycle, both in terms of cost and time. With the advent of RFID in this field, though the efficiency has increased by the use of RFID in locationing and tracking of the items, general functioning of the warehouse has not utilized the concept of RFID in its entirety. The system presented here attempts to use the RFID technology in order to include the basic functions like temperature, light regulation, etc in the existing infrastructure. Also, the paper covers IoT view to connect the devices to the web by exploiting the uniqueness of the RFID identifiers (EPC).

Keywords: RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), IoT (Internet of Things), EPC (Electronic Product Code), AC (Alternating Current), DC (Direct Current), I2C interface (Inter Integrated Circuit), Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).