A flexible middleware for RFID applications development master project report

Dissertant

al-Khaddar, Mahdiyah Ajana

Thesis advisor

Harrud, Hamid
Boulmalf, Muhammad

Comitee Members

Smith, Kevin
al-Kutbi, Muhammad

University

Al Akhawayn University

Faculty

School of Science and Engineering

University Country

Morocco

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2009

English Abstract

Nowadays, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a popular automatic wireless identification technology, and provides promising benefits in a number of application areas such as supply chain management.

Though RFID technology has attracted a significant attention due to the convergence of lower cost and increased hardware capabilities, there still exist major hurdles for the practical realization of its benefits.

To achieve the maximum benefits of RFID technology, a dedicated middleware solution is required for managing and monitoring RFID readers or other types of sensing devices, as well as processing dynamically generated high volumes of noisy RFID data.

Apart from these, such middleware should possess useful contextual characteristics such as implicit semantics, and support rapid RFID based application development.

FlexRFID as reported in this thesis is a simple and smart RFID middleware which satisfies the requirements mentioned earlier.

The report shows that FlexRFID is a highly scalable and easily deployable middleware in the heterogeneous sites based on different standards and consisting of different hardware.

Apart from these, FlexRFID incorporates the mechanisms for supervision, testing, and control of its components, plus handles the security and privacy issues that inhibit the adoption of RFID technology.

Main Subjects

Electronic engineering

Topics

• Telecommunications

No. of Pages

123

Table of Contents

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-629627