A Non-Invasive Software Architecture Style for RFID Data Provisioning

Research Scope And Methodology

A typical RFID system is naturally a complex system that has many aspects (Sheng, Li, & Zeadally, 2008; Zhao & Gan, 2006). An RFID tag can store from a simple 96 bit EPC identifier to several Kilobytes of product and operational data. The RFID can be seen as a mass distributed database that store critical business information (Floerkemeier, Roduner, & Lampe, 2007). Data provisioning is the mechanism through which every business application can access RFID data. To define data provisioning clearly, we have to understand what RFID data is. The definition of the term turns out to be quite complex because of the diversity of RFID data and its usage. Nonetheless, we try to define it from a data flow perspective as depicted in Figure 1.