Bridging Physical and Virtual Worlds: Complex Event Processing for RFID Data Streams

Advances of sensor and RFID technology provide significant new power for humans to sense, understand and manage the world. RFID provides fast data collection with precise identification of objects with unique IDs without line of sight, thus it can be used for identifying, locating, tracking and monitoring physical objects. Despite these benefits, RFID poses many challenges for data processing and management: i) RFID observations contain duplicates, which have to be filtered; ii) RFID observations have implicit meanings, which have to be transformed and aggregated into semantic data represented in their data models; and iii) RFID data are temporal, streaming, and in high volume, and have to be processed on the fly. Thus, a general RFID data processing framework is needed to automate the transformation of physical RFID observations into the virtual counterparts in the virtual world linked to business applications. In this paper, we take an event-oriented approach to process RFID data, by...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EDBT
• Authors: Fusheng Wang, Shaorong Liu, Peiya Liu, Yijian Bai
• Keywords: Database, EDBT 2006, General Rfid Data, RFID Data Integration, RFID Data Processing