Challenges for pervasive RFID-based infrastructures

Evan Welbourne, Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Bordello, Waylon Brunette

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32 Scopus citations

Abstract

The success of RFID in supply chain management is leading many to consider more personal and pervasive deployments of this technology. Unlike industrial settings, however, deployments that involve humans raise new and critical problems related to privacy, security, uncertainty, and a more diverse and evolving set of applications. At the University of Washington, we are deploying a building-wide RFID-based infrastructure with hundreds of antennas and thousands of tags. Our goal is to uncover the issues of pervasive RFID deployments and devise techniques for addressing these issues before such deployments become common place. In this paper, we present the challenges encountered and lessons learned during a smaller-scale pilot deployment of the system. We show some preliminary results and, for each challenge, discuss how we addressed it or how we are planning on addressing it.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007
Pages388-392
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007 - White Plains, NY, United States
Duration: Mar 19 2007Mar 23 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007

Conference

Conference5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWhite Plains, NY
Period3/19/073/23/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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