Radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled smart shelves have recently attracted enormous attention from both industry and academia. Retailers have an explosion of interest in deploying smart shelves for the automatic ordering and the reduction of inventory inaccuracy. This study explores the retailers’ optimal policy for investing in a smart shelf inventory control system. Since the decisio...

This paper proposes the usage of a software framework, based on the Smart Box application model, for the development of applications or appliances of the Smart Box application domain. This class of ubiquitous computing applications can be described as automatic content monitoring applications using Auto-ID technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The Smart Box application mod...

RFID technology is a ubiquitous technology, and seems destined to become more a more ubiquitous. Traditional cryptographic primitives are not supported on low-cost RFID tags since, at most, 4K gates can be devoted to security-related tasks. Despite this, there are a vast number of proposals based on the use of classical hash functions, an assumption that is not realistic (at least at the presen...

This paper describes the crack sensing performance of a wireless and passive smart-skin sensor designed as a folded patch antenna. When strain/deformation occurs on the patch antenna, the antenna’s electrical length changes and its electromagnetic resonance frequency also changes accordingly. An inexpensive off-the-shelf radiofrequency identification (RFID) chip is adopted in the sensor design ...

The paper proposes and discusses the integration of WSN and RFID technologies in the IoT scenario. The proposed approach is based on the REST paradigm, thanks to which the two technologies can be seamless integrated by representing sensors, actuators and RFID related data as network resources globally addressable through state-of-the-art IoT protocols. The integration approach is detailed for t...

Low-cost RFID tags are being deployed to support smart environment and other ubiquitous applications, and in particular to provide security and integrity functions within this domain. While the tags themselves are often discardable and easily replaced, they are embedded into a long-lasting computing infrastructure. As such, RFID security requirements may include persistence that extends beyond ...

In this paper we discuss how to build friendly user interfaces to the smart world. We present the REACHeS architecture for controlling Internet services through physical user interfaces; using a mobile terminal and icons placed in the environment. Each icon advertises a service that can be started by touching the corresponding icon with a mobile terminal. This service activation configures the ...

RFID is a low power wireless emerging technology which has given rise to highly promising applications in real life. It can be employed for robot navigation. In multi-robot environment, when many robots are moving in the same workspace, there is a possibility of their physical collision with themselves as well as with physical objects. In the present work, we have proposed and developed a proce...

This is a very useful application of RFID (Radio-frequency identification) and is very commonly used in institutes, offices, homes and so on. An RFID system consists of a reader device and a transponder. A transponder or tag has a unique serial number which is identified by the reader. Here RFID has been interfaced with ARM Processor to provide secured access. The relevant messages are also dis...

The nature of emerging business technologies, such automatic identification, and data capture innovations, such as smart cards, touch memory, and RFID, proves to be a difficult process to implement and achieve, despite recent efforts, even as implementation continues to lessen. The economy of scales associated with bar codes is a difficult barrier to overcome. Two Pittsburgh-based companies are...