Session Number
P222
Keywords
RFID-based inventory, RFID-based usage-statistics
Description
With this contribution we will provide an outline on new applications of RFID-utilization which go beyond the typical applications such as self-check service to clients and security tasks and may give a perspective of new ideas.
The German market of RFID-related tenders in the library context has an annual value of estimated at ten million Euro on average. It is our belief that innovative ideas and insights from within the library world itself are needed to advance the technological support and improve our goals, services and workflows in the small and smart world of the internet of things.
Against the background that our University of Applied Sciences is not so far from the Funkerberg where the first radio programme was transmitted in Germany in the year 1920 and that some RFID-related degree courses like Telematics, Logistics and Informatics are offered, it is proud to maintain the only RFID-task group in Germany which is strongly connected with the library-matters1 and can present two contributions during this conference.
At first we will describe our inventory workflow with mobile RFID-devices, wands and software to get real time information about the existing holding and its position, which is important for every library to monitor its asset and all visualisations and indications of online-catalogue information like the location of each copy.2
We have different ways of reaching this goal, e.g. through the Unique Identifier (UID) as serial numer of each tag which identifies the transponder and has under the point of view of security aspects further advantages. Our team has achieved with this method a detection rate of 98 percent. Through scanning the media shelves with an RFID working mobile device (which includes antenna and reader) we got in a relatively short time (average of less than 10 minutes for 1.500 RFID-tags or items) a good part of the library sock. The UID is deposited within the Integrated Library System (ILS) or Library Management System (LMS) of the public libraries in Berlin with almost hundred locations. In a broader audience we would like to discuss and share our experience.
As a second example we will present our solution to measure the usage of RFID-tagged printed-journals on a movable shelf. This shelf is fitted with an RFID-Reader, adapted single-loop antenna and some other smart units, a rechargeable battery, also a bluetooth transmitter to deliver all data to bluetooth-receiving personal computer. In this notebook a special unique software is used as middleware with a program that produces different charts about the usage of each shelved current journal. The electromagnetic field near this shelf enables recording how often the journal has been removed and replaces. With this solution as a first step we hope to get more information about the usage of non-lending materials within a library, not only journals.
New RFID-apps: HF-Based Stock Management by Mobile Solution and Producing Usage Statistics on Non-Lending Colleges (e.g. Periodicals)
With this contribution we will provide an outline on new applications of RFID-utilization which go beyond the typical applications such as self-check service to clients and security tasks and may give a perspective of new ideas.
The German market of RFID-related tenders in the library context has an annual value of estimated at ten million Euro on average. It is our belief that innovative ideas and insights from within the library world itself are needed to advance the technological support and improve our goals, services and workflows in the small and smart world of the internet of things.
Against the background that our University of Applied Sciences is not so far from the Funkerberg where the first radio programme was transmitted in Germany in the year 1920 and that some RFID-related degree courses like Telematics, Logistics and Informatics are offered, it is proud to maintain the only RFID-task group in Germany which is strongly connected with the library-matters1 and can present two contributions during this conference.
At first we will describe our inventory workflow with mobile RFID-devices, wands and software to get real time information about the existing holding and its position, which is important for every library to monitor its asset and all visualisations and indications of online-catalogue information like the location of each copy.2
We have different ways of reaching this goal, e.g. through the Unique Identifier (UID) as serial numer of each tag which identifies the transponder and has under the point of view of security aspects further advantages. Our team has achieved with this method a detection rate of 98 percent. Through scanning the media shelves with an RFID working mobile device (which includes antenna and reader) we got in a relatively short time (average of less than 10 minutes for 1.500 RFID-tags or items) a good part of the library sock. The UID is deposited within the Integrated Library System (ILS) or Library Management System (LMS) of the public libraries in Berlin with almost hundred locations. In a broader audience we would like to discuss and share our experience.
As a second example we will present our solution to measure the usage of RFID-tagged printed-journals on a movable shelf. This shelf is fitted with an RFID-Reader, adapted single-loop antenna and some other smart units, a rechargeable battery, also a bluetooth transmitter to deliver all data to bluetooth-receiving personal computer. In this notebook a special unique software is used as middleware with a program that produces different charts about the usage of each shelved current journal. The electromagnetic field near this shelf enables recording how often the journal has been removed and replaces. With this solution as a first step we hope to get more information about the usage of non-lending materials within a library, not only journals.