An Adaptative Framework Architecture for RFID Applications

Abstract

The rising use of RFID has been stimulating the world market through strong financial investments heading for the adoption of RFID as a standard identification technology. Such initiative has been fomenting the necessity of an infrastructure able to deal with the restrictions and limitations imposed by business areas and RFID environments. This work presents a modular and adaptive framework architecture that implements the EPC Network specifications and that aims at facilitating the RFID applications development. The framework is composed by modules that provide communication interfaces for different applications and reader devices and also a set of functions for data processing and information services. For the work validation, the framework was integrated in a real system for fuel supply control of vehicle fleets and the results demonstrated its efficiency in the integration of RFID systems.