An Adaptative Framework Architecture for RFID Applications

Abstract

The rising use of RFID has been stimulating the world market through strong financial investments heading for the adoption of RFID as a standard identification technology. Such initiative has been fomenting the necessity of an infrastructure able to deal with the restrictions and limitations imposed by business areas and RFID environments. This work presents a modular and adaptive framework architecture that implements the EPC Network specifications and that aims at facilitating the RFID applications development. The framework is composed by modules that provide communication interfaces for different applications and reader devices and also a set of functions for data processing and information services. For the work validation, the framework was integrated in a real system for fuel supply control of vehicle fleets and the results demonstrated its efficiency in the integration of RFID systems.

eCloudRFID – A mobile software framework architecture for pervasive RFID-based applications

“…All data are stored on the device itself through eWindIS, but upon request, this data can be uploaded to WindIS in order to share this data between organizations. CloudRFID middleware (Amaral et al, 2009a(Amaral et al, , 2009b is installed in each RFID portal. It works with WindIS through a capture application by adding information like product status and location and the transactions that occurred between business partners.…”

“…CloudRFID Framework (Amaral et al, 2009a(Amaral et al, , 2009b is an RFID software framework that offers in its architecture an adaptable and modular framework based on tools to facilitate the development process of RFID applications. The related elements (Fig.…”

“…3b). It is a small-scale replica of WindIS (Amaral et al, 2009a(Amaral et al, , 2009b, due to the fact that it records transactions captured and queried by the embedded application. It is possible to consider the repository as a cache memory of queried and captured transactions, where captured transactions can be sent to remote repositories through WindIS capture services (Fig.…”

“…This section presents an application model based on eCloudR-FID Framework applied to traceability, registration and consulting of products through an RFID mobile reader as well as its integration with CloudRFID Framework application's compliant (Amaral et al, 2009a(Amaral et al, , 2009b.…”

“…This work is an extension of CloudRFID Framework (Amaral et al, 2009a(Amaral et al, , 2009b and implements the interfaces defined in the EPC Network specification according to the EPCglobal standards (EPCglobal, 2009). Additionally, this work was built using a modular and flexible software architecture based on a component library adaptable to different application domains and existing reader devices (RFID, Barcode and GPS/GPRS).…”