TY - JOUR
T1 - Taxonomy and challenges of the integration of RFID and wireless sensor networks
AU - Liu, Hai
AU - Bolic, Miodrag
AU - Nayak, Amiya
AU - Stojmenović, Ivan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is partially supported by NSERC Strategic Grants STPSC356913-2007B and STPGP 336406-07 and the UK Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. The authors would like to thank Daniel Shapiro for his constructive review of the first version of this manuscript.
PY - 2008/11
Y1 - 2008/11
N2 - Radio frequency identification and wireless sensor networks are two important wireless technologies that have a wide variety of applications in current and future systems. RFID facilitates detection and identification of objects that are not easily detectable or distinguishable by using conventional sensor technologies. However, it does not provide information about the condition of the objects it detects. WSN, on the other hand, not only provides information about the condition of the objects and environment but also enables multihop wireless communications. Hence, the integration of these technologies expands their overall functionality and capacity. This article investigates recent research work and applications that integrate RFID with sensor networks. Four classes of integration are discussed: integrating tags with sensors, integrating tags with WSN nodes and wireless devices, integrating readers with WSN nodes and wireless devices, and a mix of RFID and WSNs. Finally, a discussion of new challenges and future work is presented.
AB - Radio frequency identification and wireless sensor networks are two important wireless technologies that have a wide variety of applications in current and future systems. RFID facilitates detection and identification of objects that are not easily detectable or distinguishable by using conventional sensor technologies. However, it does not provide information about the condition of the objects it detects. WSN, on the other hand, not only provides information about the condition of the objects and environment but also enables multihop wireless communications. Hence, the integration of these technologies expands their overall functionality and capacity. This article investigates recent research work and applications that integrate RFID with sensor networks. Four classes of integration are discussed: integrating tags with sensors, integrating tags with WSN nodes and wireless devices, integrating readers with WSN nodes and wireless devices, and a mix of RFID and WSNs. Finally, a discussion of new challenges and future work is presented.
KW - Protocols
KW - Radiofrequency identification
KW - Sensors
KW - Temperature measurement
KW - Temperature sensors
KW - Wireless communication
KW - Wireless sensor networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=57449101619&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MNET.2008.4694171
DO - 10.1109/MNET.2008.4694171
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:57449101619
SN - 0890-8044
VL - 22
SP - 26
EP - 32
JO - IEEE Network
JF - IEEE Network
IS - 6
ER -