Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a wireless communication technology that uses radio–frequency waves to transfer information between tagged objects and readers without line of sight. This creates tremendous opportunities for linking various objects from real world. These objects are numbered, identified, catalogued, and tracked. In recent years, RFID has gained a significant momentum and is emerging as an important technology for revolutionizing a wide range of applications including supply chain management, retail, aircraft maintenance, anti–counterfeiting, baggage handling, healthcare, just to cite some.<br>While RFID provides promising benefits such as inventory visibility and business process automation, some significant challenges need to be overcome before these benefits can be realized. One important issue is how to process and manage RFID data, which is typically in large volume, noisy and unreliable, time–dependent, dynamically changing, and of varying ownership. Another issue is how to seamlessly integrate low–level RFID data into (existing) enterprise information infrastructures (e.g., upper–level business processes). Finally, given the ability of inexpensively tagging and thus monitoring a large number of items and/or people, RFID raises some serious security and privacy concerns. Indeed, RFID privacy and security are stimulating research areas that involve rich interplay among many disciplines, like signal processing, hardware design, supply–chain logistics, privacy rights, and cryptography.<br><b>Keywords:</b> • Data management issues in RFID applications • Innovative RFID–enabled applications • Security/privacy and RFID • RFID and sensor networks • Web services and RFID • RFID and semantic Web • RFID standards • RFID case studies • RFID middleware • Next generation RFID technologies • Commercial experience with RFID • RFID network management • COTS and Open Source RFID infrastructure • Integration of RFID with other applications • Performance evaluation • Business process redesign and RFID<br>
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