Vessel tracking using RFID and LDR in tissue culture laboratory

Tissue culture laboratory at Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) is a place that involved in producing superior planting material through tissues culture or cloning process. In the tissue culture laboratory, a lot of vessels for cloning process are located in several racks in different growth rooms. All the data specification of vessels such as date, time, personnel who in charge in cloning process, and number of racks are recorded manually on log book for the future references. Thus, this paper proposed a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system with Light Dependent Resistors (LDR) sensor to replace the current method of data tracking vessels. In hardware development, the main component is RFID card, PIC 16F877A, and Light Dependent Resistors (LDR) sensor to detect the vessels. Meanwhile, visual basic is used to display the information and data integration. Integrated system has been performed and the results show the improvement of the tracking vessel system in the tissue culture laboratory.