MARC: Minimum access RFID readers commands

Abstract

As the use of RFID infrastructures is increasing, the deployment of heterogeneous RFID readers inside an ubiquitous system represents one of most typical problem. Integrating, hiding and supervising installation using sets of heterogeneous RFID readers represents a new focus in the middleware RFID research area. In this paper we present MARC (Minimal Abstract RFID Commands) a language to manage RFID installation in the DEPCAS (Data EPC Acquisition Software) RFID middleware. MARC language proposes a set of abstract commands to overload the specifics vendor applications to communicate from RFID middleware with RFID readers.