Study of RFID Middleware for Distributed Large-scale Systems

The potential for RFID applications appears virtually limitless and there is a variety of applications for RFID in manufacture, supply chain, retail inventory control, transportation, agriculture, construction, etc. But the adoption of RFID in business fields faces several challenges. This paper identifies these challenges posed by the Internet-scale RFID-based systems. Then we propose a three layered middleware architecture which separates challenges into specific layer. According to the middleware architecture we present a novel middleware framework which comprises double engines named as network management engine and data management engine, respectively. The components of these engines provide the solution to address the challenges faced by RFID middleware