Title
A Policy Based Event Management Middleware for Implementing RFID Applications
Abstract
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has become a popular identification technology in a number of application areas such as supply chain management. A dedicated middleware solution is required to achieve the maximum benefits of RFID technology. The middleware components serve to abstract the communication between the middleware and the different types of sensing devices on one hand, and the middleware and backend applications on the other hand. FlexRFID is a simple and smart RFID middleware which provides device management and monitoring, data processing, filtering, and aggregation, rapid application development, as well as a policy based business rules layer which helps applying rules for accessing and configuring the services provided by the middleware. This layer serves to process some business intelligence rules locally so that the host system is offloaded from those mundane tasks. The paper shows that FlexRFID is a highly scalable and easily deployable middleware in the heterogeneous sites based on different standards and consisting of different hardware. Apart from these, FlexRFID incorporates the mechanisms for supervision, testing, and control of its components, plus handles the security and privacy issues that inhibit the adoption of RFID technology by applying the privacy policies in the business rules layer. FlexRFID middleware is controlling the data flows in and out as well as locally controlling some intelligence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/WiMob.2009.75
WiMob
Keywords
Field
DocType
competitive intelligence,data privacy,middleware,radiofrequency identification,FlexRFID,RFID middleware,business intelligence rules,data processing,device management,device monitoring,filtering,policy based business rules layer,policy based event management middleware,privacy policies,radio frequency identification,rapid application development,FlexRFID,RFID,middleware,policy-based event
Middleware,Rapid application development,Middleware (distributed applications),Computer science,Computer network,Information privacy,Radio-frequency identification,Message oriented middleware,Business rule,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.45
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. E. Ajana140.83
M. Boulmalf2122.01
H. Harroud391.34
habib hamam412423.13