A Non-Invasive Software Architecture Style for RFID Data Provisioning

Abstract

The global adoption of RFID technology presents a number of challenges to IT architecture design. This paper identifies important requirements for RFID data provisioning at an abstract architecture level. A non-invasive architecture style is proposed to satisfy these requirements. Our proposed architecture style has the advantages of low entry barriers and high flexibility. The architecture style is used as a basis for evaluating three existing architectures for RFID data provisioning. Various architecture mismatches that could hinder the pace of RFID adoption are identified and discussed.

Keywords: RFID, data provision, non-invasive architecture style