Design an OSGi Extension Service for Mobile RFID Applications

Abstract

Mobile RFID systems are increasingly being deployed in industry and m-commerce. Due to the inherent limitations of mobile devices (PDAs, mobile phones, etc.) such as CPU speed, memory and storage capacity, special supports must be provided to utilize RFID in mobile devices. However, currently, most of organizations put their focuses on RFID middleware running on desktops or servers, while few attentions have been paid to mobile RFID middleware which allows for rapid prototyping and development of mobile RFID solutions. In this paper, we put forward a component-based, service-oriented architecture that provides developers with the possibility of constructing customized mobile RFID middleware to support different combinations of requirements. And we developed Mobile RFID service extension (MRSE), a RFID extension for OSGi platform.