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RFIDMania - Extensible and Adaptable RFID Middleware and Specifications By Eyad Aboulouz Fall 2009 A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Computer Science
Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Computer Science School of Computer Science Carleton University Supervisor: Dwight Deugo ABSTRACT Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is an emerging technology that allows
objects to be electronically tagged and identified wirelessly. In recent years, many organizations
have started to show interest in porting this technology to their existing business
processes. With the increase in popularity of the technology, many vendor-specific RFID
readers were manufactured and sold to interested organizations.
Deployment of such RFID readers to existing business processes became difficult as software
developers needed to understand each vendor-specific RFID reader on its own, due
to lack of standardization among RFID readers of different makes, before they were able
to work with it and implement what is needed. In recognizing this, a scalable and adaptable
middleware, called RFIDMania, was designed to allow software developers to interact
with any RFID reader of their choice without having to know the specifics of the reader.
RFIDMania provides an environment to process all data received from RFID tags, translates
the data, decodes it, filters it and routes it to the application in the form of an event.
RFIDMania is able to offer software developers an environment to deliver portable generic
code that is not tightly coupled with hardware specific commands.
THESIS DOWNLOAD [ TH_mcs_2009_aboulouz_0004.pdf ] |
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