DEPLOYINGRFID– CHALLENGES,SOLUTIONS, ANDOPENISSUES EditedbyCristinaTurcu Deploying RFID – Challenges, Solutions, and Open Issues Edited by Cristina Turcu Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. 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ISBN 978-953-307-380-4 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Chapter 1 The Challenges and Issues Facing the Deployment of RFID Technology 1 Peter Darcy, Prapassara Pupunwiwat and Bela Stantic Chapter 2 RFID Components, Applications and System Integration with Healthcare Perspective 27 Kamran Ahsan Chapter 3 Development of a Neonatal Interactive Simulator by Using an RFID Module for Healthcare Professionals Training 51 Loreana Arrighi, Jenny Cifuentes, Daniel Fonseca, Luis Méndez, Flavio Prieto and Jhon J. Ramírez Chapter 4 RFID Technology in Preparation and Administration of Cytostatic Infusions 83 Šárka Kozáková and Roman Goněc Chapter 5 Application of RFID Technology in eHealth 103 Cristina Turcu, Tudor Cerlinca, Marius Cerlinca and Remus Prodan Chapter 6 RFID Technology and Multi-Agent Approaches in Healthcare 127 Felicia Gîză, Cristina Turcu and Cornel Turcu Chapter 7 Farm Operation Monitoring System with Wearable Sensor Devices Including RFID 141 Tokihiro Fukatsu and Teruaki Nanseki Chapter 8 The Application of RFID in Automatic Feeding Machine for Single Daily Cow 159 Zhijiang Ni, Zhenjiang Gao and Hai Lin VI Contents Chapter 9 The U.S. National Animal Identification System (NAIS) & the U.S. Beef-Cattle Sector: A Post-Mortem Analysis of NAIS 167 Rhonda Skaggs Chapter 10 Mine Planning Using RFID 179 Vladimir Konyukh Chapter 11 The Applicability of RFID for Indoor Localization 203 Apostolia Papapostolou and Hakima Chaouchi Chapter 12 Use of Active RFID and Environment-Embedded Sensors for Indoor Object Location Estimation 219 Hiroaki Fukada, Taketoshi Mori, Hiroshi Noguchi and Tomomasa Sato Chapter 13 RFID Sensor Modeling by Using an Autonomous Mobile Robot 237 Grazia Cicirelli, Annalisa Milella and Donato Di Paola Chapter 14 Location of Intelligent Carts Using RFID 249 Yasushi Kambayashi and Munehiro Takimoto Chapter 15 Services, Use Cases and Future Challenges for Near Field Communication: the StoLPaN Project 265 Carlo Maria Medaglia, Alice Moroni, Valentina Volpi, Ugo Biader Ceipidor, András Vilmos and Balázs Benyó Chapter 16 RFID Applications in Cyber-Physical System 291 Nan Wu and Xiangdong Li Chapter 17 SAW Transponder – RFID for Extreme Conditions 303 Alfred Binder, Gudrun Bruckner and René Fachberger Chapter 18 Internetworking Objects with RFID 319 Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen, Qi Zhang and Thomas Skjødebjerg Toftegaard Chapter 19 Applying RFID Technology to Improve User Interaction in Novel Environments 335 Elena de la Guía, María D. Lozano and Víctor M.R. Penichet Chapter 20 Building Blocks of the Internet of Things: State of the Art and Beyond 351 Alexandru Serbanati, Carlo Maria Medaglia and Ugo Biader Ceipidor Contents VII Chapter 21 RFID Security and Privacy 367 Michel Arnaud Chapter 22 The Ethics of RFID Technology 377 Joël Schlatter and Fouad Chiadmi Preface Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that is rapidly gaining popularity due to its several benefits in a wide area of applications like inventory tracking, supply chain management, automated manufacturing, healthcare, etc. The benefits of implementing RFID technologies can be seen in terms of efficiency (increasedspeedinproduction,reduced sh rinkage,lowererrorrates, improved asset tracking etc.) or effectiveness (services that companies provide to the customers). Despite these numerous benefits, the technology has limited widespread implementation, due to the insufficient robustness and reliability of the RFID technology, cheaper alternatives to RFID (bar‐codes), the costs‐benefits balance of RFIDimplementationandtheabsenceofc ommonstandardsandinteroperability. Intheseconditions,itistheresearchers’goaltocontributetotheimprovementofthis technologyandtheprovidingofnewandvaluablesolutionstotheindustrypersonnel. ThebookincludesinterestingresearchstudiesfromexperiencedscientistsintheRFID domain. Inchapter1,theauthorspre senttheimportanceofRFIDandtheshortcomingsofthe currentapproachesdesignedtocorrectsomeissuesamongtheintegrationofsystems includingsecurity,privacy,anddataabnormalities.Theyalsorecommendsolutionsto theseissues. Chapter2dealswiththestudyoftheRFIDcomponentssuchasantennaandreader.It alsod iscussestheRFIDactiveandpassivetags,andcomparesthesetags,considering both advantages and disadvantages of RFID system. RFID applications are explored and a technical model is analyzed. The chapter also considers the healthcare perspectivesandRFIDusewithinhealthcaresettings.Thisstudyoutlinesamodelfor connected RFID applications, which provides quick support for various healthcare functionsandenhancesflexibilityfordifferentsystems’componentsintegration. Chapter 3outlines the experienceand achievements attained in a projectcarried out by the National University of Colombia. This project was intended to design and implement RFID‐based tool s for trainingstudents in medical and nursingtechniques appliedonneonatalpatients. X Preface Theauthorsofchapter4 proposeanRFID‐basedsolutiontoreducethehumanfactor inthepreparationandadministrationofcytostaticinfusions. In chapter 5 the authors propose an RFID‐based system that integrates RFID and multi‐agent technologies in health care in order to make patient emergency care as efficient and risk‐free as pos sible, by providing doctors with as much information about a patient and as quickly as possible. Also they describe a general purpose architectureanddatamodelthatisdesignedforbothcollectingambulatorydatafrom variousexistingdevicesandsystems,andstoringclinicallysignificantinformationin ordertobeacces sedbytheemergencycarephysician. Inchapter6theauthorsproposeanRFID‐basedmulti‐agentsystem,thatfacilitatesthe integrationofdatafromheterogeneoussourcesinordertoachieveacompletepatient electronicmedicalrecord.Theadoptionofthissystemdoesnotrequiremajorchanges intermsofthesoftwareresou rcesexistinginthemedicalunits. Inchapter7theauthorsproposeafarm operation monitoring systemusingwearable sensordeviceswithRFIDreadersandvarioussensingdevicessuchasmotionsensors, cameras,andaGPS.Thissystemrecognizesdetailedfarmingoperationsautomatically invarioussituationsby analyzingthedatafromsensorsanddetectedRFIDtags.The tagsandsenso rsareattachedtorelevantobjectssuchas farmingmaterials,machinery, facilities,andsoon.Inthischapter,theauthors,basedontheirresearch,describethe concept and features ofthissystem and theresultsofseveral experiments condu cted ona prototype system. The majorapplications and extensionsof the current systems arealsooutlined. In chapter 8, the authors introduce the application of RFID in day‐to day activity in cow industry, regarding the use of RFID technology in automatic cow feeding machine. Chapter9focusesonthecow‐calfsector ,withanoverviewofU.S.agricultureandthe beef‐cattlesector.Finally,theauthorpresentswhatcanbecalled“theNationalAnimal IdentificationSystem(NAIS)Pushback”. In chapter 10 the author presents the new potential of RFID‐applications in mine planning.AnRFID‐based systemcanbeused to visualizetheplacement of machines inside roadways; to monitor miners with personal transponders; to prevent non‐ permitted control of machines; to prioritize the control of machines; to evaluate the productivity of both machines and mining areas; to evaluate fuel consumption and machine resources, etc. After being gathered, this inform ation is used for the mine management. In chapter 11, the authors investigate the applicability of the RFID technology in location sensing, the main design, and environmental factors that should be consideredbeforedevelopinganRFID‐basedlocalizationscheme.Theauthorspresent a scenario according to whichthe location of m ultiplereader‐enabled terminals need . to make patient emergency care as efficient and risk‐free as pos sible, by providing doctors with as much information about a patient and as quickly as possible. Also