Hardware and Software Requirements

This information may be presented in point form or in a table. Below is an example.

Computer - for running the virtual Alpha Gate in the RFID Lab
- Desktop or Notebook in the RFID Lab (3116) running MS Windows XP (OS)
- CPU – Pentium IV, 3 GHz or above
- Hard Disk Space – 80 GBytes or above
- Memory – 1GB or above
Alpha Gate - for reading RFID tags in the RFID Lab
- Three tracks for the three RFID readers
- Three RFID readers – to handle the data from the antennas
- Three antennas – to receive the data from RFID tags
- RFID tags – to store some information about products; made of copper
- Antenna controller – to receive signals from the computer and control the motors
- Nine Stepper motors – to control the three antennas and the x-axis, y-axis and z-axis

MS Office Access - for our database
C++, C#, Visual Basic and .net - programming languages used to develop our FYP
3Ds Max Design 2009 32-bit - for drawing parts of 3D components
Irrlicht Engine Version 1.4.2 - for drawing simple 3D components, importing .3ds files and working with the C++ language
MS Visual C++ .NET 2003 - acts as a complier