Sistema de automatización de trazabilidad para la empresa happy fruit utilizando tecnología rfid

Abstract

In recent years, companies in the food sector in Ecuador have shown significant growth, which forces companies to improve their production processes. The systems or applications that help with the traceability of products or inventory in companies have evolved significantly with the implementation of RFID technology, this technology allows to know in real time the status of the products. One of the companies that want to implement a system to improve their archaic processes is Happy Fruit, located in Arenillas, El Oro province, which offers a wide variety of organic products, both fresh and handmade processed, and one of its activities is to record the production processes, but this activity takes a lot of time because it is done manually and this often causes confusion when ordering and storing information correctly. For this reason, this curricular work refers to the development of a system using a distributed architecture that allows to improve the traceability processes of the company, which allows to track the activities and processes necessary for the production of products by applying the XP software development methodology. In addition, the use of RFID tags with NFC technology was implemented to identify the semi-final and final products, in order to generate reports quickly and in detail. The aim was to optimize the recording of production processes, thus considerably reducing the time and human resources required. Finally, as an evaluation of the system, an interview was conducted with Happy Fruit employees to verify if the requirements established by the company were met and if it helped to improve their processes, resulting in a favorable response to the developed system.