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RFID: Opportunities and Challenges

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) creates a seamless link between individual objects and their digital natives. It allows objects to be uniquely, automatically and individually identified using wireless communications. With more than a half century’s development, RFID is becoming the mainstream driving force and has been able to provide various benefits in many different industries. In this chapter, we introduce the basic concepts in RFID technologies and its applications. We discuss the characteristics of RFID data and overview the state-of-the-art research on RFID data management. We also highlight some technical challenges in the management and use of RFID data.

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    http://www.gs1.org/gsmp/kc/epcglobal/uhfc1g2.

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    IETF RFC 2915.

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    http://www.gs1.org/gsmp/kc/epcglobal/discovery.

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    http://bridge-project.eu.

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    http://bridge-project.eu/index.php/bridge-public-deliverables/en/.

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    Researchers from IBM Almaden Research Center have also developed prototype DS [34]. However, the BRIDGE project has particularly demonstrated the use of DS along with the EPCglobal architecture in various industrial projects.

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    In a small environment, a tag may be read by more than one reader at the same time; as a result, its location is uncertain because of inconsistency derived from the readers.

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    The authors did not give a name to the model. For convenience, we call it “KAIST Trace Model”.

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Acknowledgements

Quan Z. Sheng’s work has been partially supported by Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant DP0878917 and Linkage Project LP100200114. We thank the reviewers for their valuable comments, which helped us improve the content and quality of this chapter.

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Wu, Y., Sheng, Q.Z., Zeadally, S. (2013). RFID: Opportunities and Challenges. In: Chilamkurti, N., Zeadally, S., Chaouchi, H. (eds) Next-Generation Wireless Technologies. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5164-7_7

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