Abstract
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is emerging as an important technology for exchanging information about physical objects along distributed value chains. The influential standardization organization EPCglobal has released standards for RFID-based data exchange that follow the data-on-network paradigm. Here, the business-relevant object data is provided by network services, whereas RFID tags are only used to carry a reference number for data retrieval via the Internet. However, as we show in this paper, this paradigm can result in long response times for data access. We present experiments that explore what factors impact the response times and identify obstacles in current architectures. Based on these analyses, we designed a cloud-based service that realizes high-speed data access for data-on-network solutions. We further present simulation experiments analyzing the benefits of our cloud-based concept with regards to fast RFID-data access and reduced infrastructure cost through scale effects.
Recommended Citation
Ziekow, Holger; Fabian, Benjamin; Müller, Cristian; and Günther, Oliver, "RFID in the Cloud: A Service for High-Speed Data Access in Distributed Value Chains" (2010). AMCIS 2010 Proceedings. 256.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2010/256