A Tracking Algorithm in RFID Reader Network

Author

Jiang, Wei ; Yu, Dan ; Ma, Yan

Author_Institution

Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun.

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 2006

Firstpage

164

Lastpage

171

Abstract

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a hot research topic in recent years. And connecting RFID readers to construct a mesh network, which is defined as RFID reader network herein, by short-range wireless technologies (such as ZigBee) is a promising architecture. RFID reader can sense (identify) persons, animals, vehicles and goods by interrogating transponders tagged on them. From this perspective, RFID reader and reader network is sensor and sensor network that is context-aware, respectively. However, only sensing is not enough in many scenarios. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a tracking algorithm, coined virtual route tracking (VRT), to realize tracking persons or objects in RFID reader network

Keywords

object detection; radiofrequency identification; tracking; wireless sensor networks; RFID reader network; context-aware network; mesh network; radio frequency identification; sensor network; short-range wireless technologies; tracking algorithm; virtual route tracking; Algorithm design and analysis; Batteries; Frequency; Joining processes; Radar tracking; Radiofrequency identification; Transponders; Vehicles; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee; Radio Frequency Identification (RFID); Sensor Networks; Tracking.;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, 2006. FCST '06. Japan-China Joint Workshop on

Conference_Location

Fukushima

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2721-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FCST.2006.7

Filename

4020985