Integration of RFID and Wireless Sensor Networks

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are two important wireless technologies that have wide variety of applications and provide limitless future potentials. However, RFID and sensor networks almost are under development in parallel way. Integration of RFID and wireless sensor networ ks attracts little attention from research community. This paper first presents a brief introduction on RFID, and then investigates recent research works, new products/pa tents and applications that integrate RFID with sensor networks. Four types of integration are discussed. They are integrating tags with sensors, integrating tags with wireless sensor nodes, integrating readers with wir eless sensor nodes and wireless devices, and mix of RFID and sensors. New challenges and future works are discus sed in the end.

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