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Making the Internet of Things a Reality: The WhereX Solution

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The availability of a middleware layer hiding the details of different RFID technologies is fundamental to exempt the programmer from details that are not directly pertinent to him/her, and thus enabling him/her to focus on the development of the specific application. The Internet of things may benefit a lot from the existence of such a middleware. New services will be easily developed and objects interaction will be strongly enhanced. Developing applications in the area of mobility, which can locate objects, animals and people by following their movements, will benefit from the adoption of RFID systems that can immediately detect the occurrence of different types of events. In this chapter, we approach the problem of how the design of an event-based middleware for the management of RFID systems can be organised to make the Internet of things a reality. We point out our architecture and implementation choices. Then, we introduce WhereX, which is a specific RFID middleware made by Wireless RFID Laboratory of University of Messina, and show how it can be used in a real case study.

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  1. Engineering Faculty, University of Messina, Contrada Papardo, S. Sperone, 98166, Messina, Italy

    Antonio Puliafito, Angelo Cucinotta & Antonino Longo Minnolo

  2. Inquadro s.r.l., Via Nino Bixio, 77, 98123, Messina, Italy

    Angelo Zaia

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Puliafito, A., Cucinotta, A., Minnolo, A.L., Zaia, A. (2010). Making the Internet of Things a Reality: The WhereX Solution. In: Giusto, D., Iera, A., Morabito, G., Atzori, L. (eds) The Internet of Things. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1674-7_10

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