The Network Management Scheme for Effective Consolidation of RFID-Tag Standards

Abstract

The RFID tag sensor networks have been developed as the new infrastructure which might bring the next generation ubiquitous networking. However, the RFID network has difficulty of the effective mutual communication with another RFID network, because plural standards coexist for RFID tags. To solve this difficulty, the RNI Standard has been proposed as the network management method which enables the consolidation among the RFID tag standards. The RNI Standard originally proposed was unfortunately insufficient for the smooth communication. This study analyses the problems of the RNI Standard. And the Operational Platform based on the standard is newly proposed with the verification of it’s expandability and practicality. The proposed scheme introduces the RFID tag separation processing environment. The proposed management scheme would be useful for the coming applications utilizing the plural RFID tag standards.