Realtime Event Handling in an RFID Middleware System
by Kaushik DUTTA

Abstract

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags have emerged as a key technology for real-time asset tracking. Wide application of RFID leads to huge amounts of data being generated from scan of each of these RFID tags on individual items, for example, the RFID system of a moderate size retail chain will generate 300 million RFID scans per day.

Extracting meaningful information out of this huge amount of scan data is a challenging task. Moreover CIOs are looking for real time business decision from this RFID scan data. In this paper, we show how to add value to an RFID middleware system by enabling it to handle a large number of RFID scan data and execute business rules in real-time.

Experimentally, we demonstrate that our proposed approach is very time efficient compare to a similar implementation with existing technologies. Lastly, we also propose an architecture for a distributed RFID middleware system to handle raw RFID scan data.

About the speaker

Dr. Kaushik Dutta is an Assistant Professor at College of Business of Florida International University (FIU). Kaushik's research interests include design and development of emerging technologies, electronic Commerce, mining web log data, building scalable e-business infrastructures, database Systems, and data Management. At FIU, Kaushik teaches "Object Oriented Programming" and "ECommerce Technologies" in the professional weekend program, MS in Management Information Systems.

Kaushik has published articles in IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, European Journal of Operations Research, ACM Transactions on Database System, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Management Science, VLDB Journal and INFORMS Journal on Computing.

Kaushik also has several publications in various IEEE and ACM conference proceedings. Kaushik has received several college wide research award at FIU.

Prior to joining FIU, Kaushik was the Director of Engineering for Chutney Technologies, a software company that developed solutions to improve the scalability and performance of enterprise web applications.

Kaushik has almost a decade of experience in software product development in India, Europe and the US. Kaushik worked as a senior software engineer for Intarka Inc, an NEA funded company that was acquired by Update.com. He also worked for Wipro Ltd.

Kaushik holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University (1994), MS in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute (1996), and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology (2003).