International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 6, Issue 3, March-2015 429 ISSN 2229-5518 IJSER © 2015 http://www.ijser.org Near Field Communication Enabled Library Mr. Siddharth Jagtap, Mr. Pritam Bhange, Ms. Rutuja Gajwani, Ms. Pallavi Vishwasrao Prof. Ramkrishna Vadali Abstract— Near Field Communication enabled library will let user issue as well as return the book in a totally new perspective. This will in turn save the time and unnecessary wastage of paper and most importantly this will digitize the library. The Mifare tag will be deployed by the Library authority by embedding unique identification number (UIN) and user details into the tag. The Mifare tag can be attached to Identity card of user as well as books. Whenever the user will visit library and will chose the book for issuing, ID has to be checked at entrance Reader and same will be sent to server for verification. The server will check user details and if successfully authenticated, user can proceed further. After issuing book(s) and returning, SMS will be sent to user which includes transaction details. Index Terms— Near Field Communication, NFC, Active NFC Tags, NFC-Enabled Library, Library Management using NFC Reader/Writer. ——————————  —————————— 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Manual Library Management System anual library management is traditional way for operating the books in libraries. In this system, User gets a library card by which books are issued or returned. Library has to maintain all user records manually in a computer system. Librarian manually inserts the data in the computer system. When a user borrows books, the information of borrower and borrowed book has to be updated in the computer by librarian. This process may take time as the data has to be entered all the time manually [1]. Disadvantages of this system are: 1. Queuing 2. Manually insertion of data 3. Time consuming 1.2 Library Management Using Barcodes A Barcode is a series of parallel altering black and white patterns that represents a sequence of numbers or characters. Barcode is a specially designed font that allows you to specify and generate barcodes on normal text characters. It is extremely easy to use. Through barcode based library management system, manual circulation of resources may completely be avoided. Every book is pasted with barcode labels. Members are issued with barcode printed membership cards. These membership cards can have necessary details of the user. The barcode reader may be used to scan all the information from barcode label of the book and card. This information is then automatically updated in the library's computer system. Library can take the print out of any of the information any time during the session and any number of times. Although this system minimizes workload of the librarian [2], there are some disadvantages as follows: 1. Queuing. 2. Barcode can be altered. 1.3 NFC in Library Traditional library is managed either by bunch of staff in library (manually) or more advanced, by using barcode scanner. Both of these methods take much of the time for borrowing and returning the books. Considering the current scenario when someone borrows or returns a book, a record has to be maintained in the register and then the book will be issued, so this whole process becomes lengthy and time consuming. Hence there is a need for alternate solution which will be less time consuming and which will reduce the complexity of the current process. Near Field Communication (NFC) can be used to simplify this time consuming process just by tapping the book or waving it near NFC device [7]. Unlike traditional library system there will not be any need of borrowing book manually just tap the book near device and get the book issued. Similar process is carried out while returning the book. NFC is a set of standards for smart phones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by tapping them or bringing them into proximity, usually its M ———————————————— Authors- Mr. Siddharth Jagtap, Mr. Pritam Bhange, Ms. Rutuja Gajwani, Ms. Pallavi Vishwasrao Guide- Prof. Ramkrishna Vadali • Authors are currently pursuing bachelor degree program in Information Technology in Pimpri Chinchwad College Of Engineering,Pune, India, PH-+919657200435. E-mail: siddharthjagtap1@gmail.com • Guide is currently Assistant Professor and Head Of Department-IT Support and Systems, Pimpri Chinchwad College Of Engineering, Pune, India IJSER