Chapter 10 – Integrating RFID Readers in Enterprise IT

Table 10.1 Base Service Set (BSS)

Figure 10.1 Timeline of RFID operation featuring services

Table 10.2 Configuration Service Set (CSS)

Figure 10.2 “Select” command defined in the EPCglobal UHF Class

1 Generation 2 Protocol

Figure 10.3 Timeline of RFID services

Figure 10.4 Filtering and aggregation of RFID data

Table 10.3 Data Processing Service Set (DPSS)

Table 10.4 Monitoring Service Set (MSS)

Figure 10.5 Centralized Architecture

Figure 10.6 Autonomous Architecture

Figure 10.7 (a) Centralized with Controller

Figure 10.7 (b) Centralized without Controller

Figure 10.7 (c) Autonomous

Figure 10.8 High-level Overview

Figure 10.9 LLRP (a) Single channel(b) Multiple reporting channels

(a) (b)

Figure 10.10 High-level reader protocols

Figure 10.11 (a) Specification of tag identification in ALE 1.1

Figure 10.11 (b) Specification of tag identification in LLRP

Figure 10.12 Tag data reports in ALE 1.1 and LLRP

Figure 10.13 Tag memory access (reading) in ALE 1.1 and LLRP

Figure 10.14 Adoption of EPCglobal specifications ALE, RP and LLRP in

the centralized architecture

Figure 10.15 High-level reader protocols such as ALE or RP

Figure 10.16 RFID reader with standard runtime environment