Monitoring Personnel Presence and Displacement in Production Facilities Using RFID Technology

The article describes a solution for monitoring the presence and movement of workers between production halls in the factory. The physical structure of the monitoring system components based on RFID antennas and chips embedded in every clothing element of an employee is presented. The hardware and software architecture of the solution is also presented and described in the article. Particular attention was paid to the algorithmic issues related to the detection of ambiguities resulting from human-machine cooperation. A number of problems resulting from different behavior of employees and their interpretation on the basis of readings for individual elements of their work attire have been solved.