| Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology potentially brings significant improvement of efficiency, security and cost reduction to enterprise operations due to high speed and simultaneous reading/writing, no line-of-sight requirement, re-writable user memory, long reading/writing range, and capability of combining with sensor etc. Along with these advantages, significant changes are also brought into Automatic Identification Data Capture (AIDC) infrastructure on which enterprise operations rely in terms of low level device management, data capturing, data processing, and data integration. The creation of RFID oriented AIDC infrastructure is complex and accompanied by the challenges such as system performance, device manageability, system extensibility, data capture reliability, and data processing and integration, etc.; The current research investigates the characteristics of RFID and creates an AIDC infrastructure that addresses the challenges brought by RFID. We focus on several aspects: (1) Analysis of the characteristics of RFID oriented AIDC infrastructure. (2) Present an architecture to achieve a manageable RFID resource network hence achieve usability of the RFID resource. (3) Evaluate performance, extensibility, and scalability of the RFID AIDC infrastructure. (4) Present methods to process data and integrate data into enterprise application in a RFID enabled environment. |
