RFID BASED PREPAID AND VALUE CARD FOR SCHOOL CANTEEN.

Today, emerging technologies have great impact to our lives in different ways. Modern technologies have revolutionized the way people communicates and interact all over the world. It simplifies life in so many ways and every one defines technology in their own way. Others define technology as science applied to practical purposes. This study aimed to provide a secured system that will alter the manual way of paying bills at school canteen by means of using RFID cards that is mainly capable of prepaid loading and earning points from the total amount of purchased items. The advantage of this system will benefit the people who are enjoying the canteen services. A card is allocated to each user and can be reloaded with a certain amount. A user needs to pay cash to the canteen owner for reloading the RFID card. The Prepaid RFID card for canteen project has a keypad for reloading and this keypad will be accessible only to the canteen owner. Results showed that the developed system is highly functional, highly reliable, highly efficient and highly secured.