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Abstract

Nowadays, personnel tracking become a significant topic in terms of security, confinement, achievement and permission purposes. There is Global Positioning System which is popular and available for outdoor personnel tracking however it is restricted for indoor tracking. Currently, indoor tracking system only has the ability to track the location of personnel but not their direction of movement. When it comes to practical, the feature of tracking direction of movement can become one of the important features to get more accurate localization information. Besides, latency on getting location information of a person by asking around the people is not realistic as someone might lost the information to find their targeted person exact location. Thus, an indoor personnel tracking system is designed and implemented to track the not only the location but also the direction of movement and able to get the latest information through mobile application. The potentials of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and concept of Internet of Things (IoT) are applied into this system in order to improve the system performance by increasing the system throughput and decreasing the system cost. This system is implemented on FPGA DE1-SoC board by integrating with WiFi modules and Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) system. The system has the ability to add new client data onto FPGA memory for next time tracking purpose.