Research on Locating and Tracking Automotive Products in Workshop Based on Active RFID Technology

In order to track and monitor automotive products in workshop effectively, a method is proposed to locate and track automotive products with Land-Mine Detection Advanced Radar Concept system (LANDMARC) based on active RFID technology. As performance of LANDMARC to position the products is limited by factors, such as selecting nearest node and adjusting strength of readers, therefore an improved dynamic k nearest nodes algorithm is adopted to locate the automotive products based on power adjustable readers. In the LANDMARC system based on active RFID for tracking automotive products in workshop, the locating information of the tracking tag on the products is obtained, meanwhile, the process information of the tag is achieved through position resolution module. Finally, the results of simulation show that the method of locating and tracking automotive products is effective.