Integration of RFID and Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are two important wireless technologies that have wide variety of applications and provide limitless future potentials. However, RFID and sensor networks almost are under development in parallel way. Integration of RFID and wireless sensor networks attracts little attention from research community. This paper first presents a brief introduction on RFID, and then investigates recent research works, new products/patents and applications that integrate RFID with sensor networks. Four types of integration are discussed. They are integrating tags with sensors, integrating tags with wireless sensor nodes, integrating readers with wireless sensor nodes and wireless devices, and mix of RFID and sensors. New challenges and future works are discussed in the end.

Experimental evaluation of read performance for RFID-based mobile sensor data gathering applications

“…We consider an important and emerging class of RFID applications -the use of RFID in sensing applications [4,5]. Of particular interest in this context are passive and semi-passive tags equipped with sensing capabilities as they can potentially last a very long time while still being fairly cheap.…”

Designing an Infrastructure by RFID Based Hybrid Technology Smart Wristband (HTSW) to enhance the Quick Rescue Operation in Industrial Accident

“…These new nodes may be compliant with existing RFID standards or they can have proprietary protocols. CoBIs RFID tags [15] are designed to monitor the ambient conditions around them and provide alerts when detected conditions break predetermined business rules. Each CoBIs tag carries an accelerometer (movement) sensor, a wireless transceiver, up to 10 kilobytes of memory, and other computing components for storing and processing business rules.…”

“…Figure 9. Data flow process to integrate RFID reader and RF transceiver [15] There are some industry solutions for RFID readers that are equipped with WLAN. One example is ALR-9770 series multi-protocol RFID reader that was developed by Alien Technology.…”

Integration of indoor localization with facility maintenance management

“…As a result, an intense research effort is currently underway to enable the application of wireless sensor networks for a wide range of industrial problems. [1] Recently, there has been a growing interest in the design, development and deployment of sensor systems for applications of high-level inference, which has lead to an increasing demand on interconnecting wireless sensor networks with other emerging technologies [2], such as RFID technology [3], multimedia-based surveillance systems [4], biomedical technology [5], mobile agent-based networks [6], P2P technology and business processes [7] and semantic technology [8]. With sensor technology being incorporated into these technologies, demands from an increasing number of autonomous and intelligent applications can be met.…”