Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to dimension and design an RFID system
- Obtain the client’s business requirements of the intended RFID system to effectively inform the new design
- Research RFID technologies, their functionalities and different implementations of configurations
- Select suitable software and hardware types to ensure the proposed system is designed to meet business requirements
- Conduct a survey of available interrogators or readers, tags and wireless units
- Dimension and design RFID system
- Select the most appropriate interrogators or readers for the given specification to ensure their compatibility with current network infrastructure, if applicable
- Minimise interrogator to interrogator interference
- Verify antenna geometry and footprint are consistent with the chosen design
- Minimise sources of interference
- Incorporate use of anti-collision protocols into the RFID design
- Customise appropriate tag to client requirements
- Predict performance for read distance, write distance and tag response time to confirm these conform with client requirements
- Select optimal locations for an RFID tag to be placed on an item
- Prepare a design proposal for the RFID system including specifications
- Prepare a report containing design solutions and recommendations of preferred products, including justification for recommendations
- Submit report to client for approval
- Document specified design