Reader Emulation System for Accessing Sensor Device Through EPCglobal Reader Protocol

EPCglobal 리더 프로토콜을 통한 센서장치 접근을 위한 리더 에뮬레이션 시스템

  • Received : 2010.01.12
  • Accepted : 2010.05.14
  • Published : 2010.08.15

Abstract

RFID applications use tags to identify objects, but recent applications tend to include diverse sensor devices such as light, temperature, and humidity sensors as well. RFID tag information is usually processed via the event driven model. However sensor devices are usually accessed via the functional call model. Therefore application developers have to deal with mixed data access models and device dependent interface functions. In this paper, we propose a sensor reader emulator that provides a consistent access interface to sensor devices regardless of the types of devices. SRE provides a more efficient way of developing RFID applications by providing a single application programmer's view to RFID tags and sensor devices. In applications where tags are fixed to a place, SRE can replace expensive sensor tags and sensor readers with inexpensive sensor devices reducing the total cost while providing the same functionality.

최근의 RFID 응용은 태그를 이용한 사물의 식별 이외에 빛, 온도, 습도와 같은 센서 장치를 함께 활용하는 것이 일반적인 추세이다. RFID 태그의 정보는 리더를 통해 이벤트 처리 방식으로 사용되는 반면, 센서 장치는 장치 의존적인 함수호출 방식으로 접근된다. 따라서 RFID 응용개발자의 입장에서는 두 가지 데이터 처리 방식을 혼용하여 프로그램을 개발해야 하고 센서장치에 의존적인 함수 인터페이스들을 사용해야 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 센서 장치를 센서 태그 형식으로 사용할 수 있게 하는 센서리더에뮬레이터를 제안한다. 센서리더 에뮬레이터를 사용하면 단일한 방식으로 RFID 태그와 센서 장치를 접근할 수 있어 RFID 응용프로그램을 효과적으로 개발할 수 있다. 또한 태그의 위치가 고정된 응용일 경우에는 고가의 센서태그와 센서리더 대신 사용될 수 있으므로 저비용으로 동일한 기능을 제공할 수 있다.

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