整合式無線射頻辨識中介軟體系統設計

Designing an integrated RFID middleware system

劉佳豪(Chia-Hao Liu)

指導教授 ： 曹世昌

亞洲大學/資訊學院/資訊工程學系碩士班/碩士(2006年)

摘要

RFID（Radio frequency identification）是一種無線的物品辨識技術，而RFID中介軟體 (Middleware) 的角色是負責系統與RFID Reader的協同作業，並針對RFID Reader所讀取的Tag資訊，進行訊號的蒐集、過濾及整理，例如排除重複讀取的訊號，再此資訊傳遞給後端的企業系統。除了接收及傳遞資訊外，它的任務還涵蓋安全性需求、除錯等作業，以確保資訊流的安全性及正確性。所以中介軟體仍是企業導入RFID系統最主要的關鍵技術。

由於RFID製造商的規格不同，應用層面也不盡相同, 因此導致中介軟體缺乏標準。因此本論文將探討如何開發一整合式的中介軟體，能即時控制RFID Reader所讀取的資料結構，以及運用 Web Service 的技術控制中介軟體的版本，確保資料的正確性。此外，亦可達到跨越硬體平台的限制，可同時使用同一架構的中介軟體，讓個人數位助理(Personal Digital Assistant, PDA)亦可使用RFID Reader的目的，提供全方位的運用的解決方案。

關鍵字

無線射頻辨識 ； 無線射頻辨識中介軟體

並列摘要

RFID (Radio frequency identification) is a wireless product with identification technology. However the role of RFID Middleware is responsible for the coordination between the system and the RFID Reader. It also processes collecting, filtering and organizing the tag data collected by reader, and, for example, removes the repeated-read signal and then transmits the information to back-end enterprise system. In addition to receiving and transmitting the information, its mission also covers the security, error-elimination and so on for assurance of the security and the accuracy of the information flows. Therefore the middleware is still the most essential technology for enterprise RFID system implementing.

The different RFID specification among manufacturers and different system applications make the middleware lack the standardization. However, the present paper will discuss about developing an integrated middleware which will be able to control the data structure immediately, and manage the middleware edition by applying the Web Service technology. This technique will guarantee the accuracy of the data. In addition, it also could overcome the limitation on crossing the hardware platform. It can make the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) simultaneously used as RFID Reader by using the same platform so it can provide the all- purpose solution.

並列關鍵字

RFID ； RFID Middleware

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