If objects could talk: a novel resource discovery approach for pervasive environments. (10th December 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ruta, Michele; Di Noia, Tommaso; Di Sciascio, Eugenio; Scioscia, Floriano; , Giacomo Piscitelli
• Is Part Of: International journal of internet protocol technology. Volume 2:Number 3/4(2007)
• Page Start: 199
• Page End: 217
• Publication Date: 2007-12-10
• Subjects: RFID -- radio frequency identification -- semantic web -- matchmaking -- pervasive computing -- resource discovery -- metadata -- product tracking -- agricultural products -- food products; File Transfer Protocol (Computer network protocol) -- Periodicals; Multicasting (Computer networks) -- Periodicals; 004.678
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8209

Abstract

We propose to extend standard Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) usage by storing semantically annotated data within RFID tags memory, so that objects may actually 'describe themselves' in a variety of scenarios. In particular here we exploit our approach to carry out an advanced matchmaking process using metadata stored in RFIDs. A 'fully backward compatible' modification to the original RFID data exchange protocol is presented, allowing to implement an advanced resource discovery framework. A compression algorithm specifically devised to ease embedding of annotated DIG description is also proposed. Motivations and benefits of the approach are outlined in a tracking of agricultural and food products case study.