Abstract:
During the past decade, members of the public see juvenile detention centers as
inhumane and a brutal problem solving action towards youth crime. Thus, most
juvenile detention center conducts in a more "friendly" environment, instilling
vocational and soft skills as well as training among its tenants. Thus, in order to keep
the security in the juvenile detention center is maintain, a monitoring system that
consists of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology and Programmable
Interface Controller is the foundation stone for a security system that was developed
in this project, so as to be able to incorporate it in a juvenile detention centre. RFID
tags serve as monitoring devices worn by detainees in a form of wrist bands. These
tags transmit signals to RFID tag readers that send a signal to the host computer for
display purposes, all the while, with PIC being the "heart" of the system. The tags on
the other hand are incorporated with its own security circuit to prevent vandalism of
the wrist bands by the detainees. The development of the subsystem that involves the
RFID tags and readers as well as the PIC is based upon C language programming.
This project ensures the top notch security in a juvenile detention center while
maintaining a conducive environment for the juveniles in detention to feel less like
convicts, which will be advancement from the current security measures taken by
juvenile detention centers.
