Design the Specific Electric Control Code of Distributed System—an Application of Radio Frequency Identification Technology to Material Flow System

Although the barcode systems have made a great deal of benefits for the inventory tracking and helped manage the flow in the material flow system. However, there are still several drawbacks in practical applications of barcode systems such as manual scanning the barcode for the reason of line-of-sight, abrasion on the surface of the barcode, limitation of data capacity.
By new technological developments and decline in chip cost, a great deal of cheaper RFID tags will make a brand new revolution and replace the original barcode procedure. In order to manage and control the material flow systems by the RFID technology, it is necessary to integrate several different standards of barcode systems such as the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), the Universal Product Code (UPC), the Uniform Code Council (UCC), and the European Article Numbering (EAN) International.
In this thesis, we propose a principle of designing the Specific Electric Control Code which not only integrates these standards but also supports more powerful functionalities for the applications with RFID technology to manage and control the material flow systems. By a case study for the washhouse, we perform the qualitative and quantitative analyses with the help of RFID technology. Qualitatively, we can control the logical correctness of each clothes processing. Quantitatively, we can track the processing history of each clothes, including the time and the location. By analyzing data, we can identify whether the clothes is processed well under the standard operational procedure.