System Costs
| Items | Quantity | Price | Total |
| Tags | 100,000 | 0.85 | 85,000 |
| Self Check Station | 1 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
| Book Drop Reader | 1 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
| Communiations Gateway Server (Interface to Readers and Innovative) | 1 | 15,000 | 15,000 |
| Circ Desk Multi-item Readers | 2 | 4,500 | 9,000 |
| Exit Sensors | 2 | 4,000 | 8,000 |
| Inventory Wand | 1 | 4,000 | 4,000 |
| Programmer/Convertal Rental (2 months) | 1 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
| Labor | 550 Hours @ 3 tags a minute | 8.00 | 4,400 |
| Carpentry / Electrical | 1,400 | ||
| $168,800 |
NOTE: This does not include the Young Library
NOTE: This does not include payment to Innovative for the Interface to Third Party Self Checkout Device (310I)
What Problem are we Trying to Solve
- RFID is a labor saving technology. Are we looking to reduce our labor?
- Reduced material handling (what?)
- Managing inventory of books on the shelve
University of Nevada Las Vegas inventoried 600,000 items and found 500 "lost" items (Is that worth it?)
- Accurate in house use statistics
- Security Issues
Questions
Tags
- Are your tags ISO 18000-3 compliant or are they proprietary (Meaning we're locked into your system)
ISO 18000-3 defines the physical interface and commands for 13.56 MHz? tags. - Are the tags read/write and how much data will they hold?
- What data will be stored on the chip besides the item number?
- Are we going to put a RFID sensory in every patron's id card? (University moving to some kind of smart card)
Readers
- Are these "multitag" readers?
Data Model and Sip2
- Are you making your "data model" openly available?
- Do you support NCIP (National Circulation Interchange Protocol)?
Security Gates
- Are the gates going to query the system or simple "beep" when an item security bit is not set?
- At the gate what is the number of items the system can read without missing any items. (5, 20 ?)
Privacy
- Can we encrypt the information only to be read by our readers?
Conversion Process
- We can use the EM (existing) security system while replaceing the barcodes with tags (Could this work long term and be cheaper?)
Vendors
Links
Making sense of rfid; Library Journal
Just a Note
Other factors controlled under application software are tag polling period and frequency, anti-collision algorithms for simultaneous, multi-tag reads, selective and addressable tag reading, sleep and wake-up commands, broadcast commands, encryption, challenge-response algorithms, and firewall control.