MOBILE APPLICATION NFC IN WAREHOUSE PROCESSES

Miha Šumer (2014) MOBILE APPLICATION NFC IN WAREHOUSE PROCESSES. EngD thesis.

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Abstract

This thesis presents an application that enables automatic execution of the storage process. It is made for NFC (Near Field Comunication) technology use for mobile devices with Android operating system and allows simple product identification. Warehouses usually still use paper documentation that can be partly or totally replaced by the electronic version, while for labelling and identification they use barcode or QR (Quick Response). In our thesis, we used short range communication devices, NFC tags that label products and smart phones with the implemented NFC module for the execution of the storage process. Paper documentation was replaced by electronic XML (Extensible Markup Language) format and was located in files on a server. The mobile application gets the information using the RESTful web services and enables product identification, sorts the products out and provides stock overview. Some important characteristics of its usage are the reduction of the required time for implementation of individual procedure, simplifying warehouse supervision and most of all the wide use of mobile phones for practical work in business processes. Testing and analysis of usability solutions were carried out based on real data located on the server in the Laboratory for Computer Architecture.

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