A systematic RFID application platform with integration capability for tour and exhibition

Firstly, due to the characteristics of the tourist attractions, galleries and museums in China, a systematic RFID Application Platform for the tour and exhibition area is presented in this paper. This systematic RFID Application Platform can successfully support the implementation of four typical RFID application subsystems simultaneously. These four application subsystems can provide intelligent services respectively for four typical application fields which are ticket management, self-help navigation, visit route recording and tracing, as well as intensity monitor and guidance. Secondly, to make use of the existing resources as much as possible, say, make use of the existing animal information management system in the Beijing Zoo as much as possible, we present a mechanism for the systematic RFID Application Platform to integrate the existing systems to the systematic RFID Application Platform. This mechanism integrates the existing system to the systematic RFID Application Platform by using the Distributed Application Integration Framework. The data between the Platform and the existing system is exchanged via data share and exchange platforms (DXS, DXA). Lastly, we present a discussion of the implementation of the systematic RFID Application Platform, by taking the implementation of the platform in the Beijing Botanical Garden and the Beijing Zoo as two application instances. The open architecture of the systematic RFID Application Platform allows deployment of several applications and integration of existing sources of information.