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There are many ways to communicate between two devices. One of that is the efficient, simple and cheap way: Web Service. Web Service is a software system designed for support communication over a network. To communicate between Arduino and host computer, we can apply Web Service which uses Arduino Ethernet Shield. The example from http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoEthernetShield describe how to call web server over HTTP protocol. We are able to apply to the call to a web service provider by sending a SOAP message. This article shows how to call the web service provider with Arduino and ethernet shield. Server-side install web service provider, developed with Java language and deploy on apache tomcat and client-side is an Arduino with Ethernet Shield installed. Arduino and Ethernet Shield From WebClient in Arduino Example, demonstrate how to call web server by using an  ethernet shield . Like use telnet command call to server with puting some instruction command within the r...

From the previous article , now we apply to the real world application. The time attendance machine which uses RFID is a good example. This article demonstrate you to how to call web service provider from Arduino and how to plug the Ethernet shield, LCD shield and RFID module to Arduino together. The RFID time attendance reads tag key and send tag number of computer for request employee name and then display employee name and time on the LCD. After computer receive tag number, program find employee ID and record employee tag them to excel and then send the employee name back to the client. In this article, the process of communication is web service by soap message. The computer server contains Microsoft excel file contain employee data. When the server receives a tag number, the web service program finds the employee name from excel file and write tag time to excel file while send back employee name.  RFID Module The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Reader Module...