Cooperative CEP-based RFID framework: A notification approach for sharing complex business events among organizations

Abstract

Through an organizational perspective, an RFID system must provide services for intelligent data management and business events integration among organizations. The widely adopted EPC Network fails to adequately support application services for event stream capture and lacks event communication methods to provide indirect exchange of events in distributed activities of complex event detection. This work presents an RFID software framework whose purpose is to raise the inter-organizational integration of an RFID middleware through cooperative complex event processing (CEP) mechanisms based on event notification services. Experimental results show that the framework improves activities of design and development of RFID applications and adds new features for integrating, managing and sharing RFID event data.