ABSTRACT
Advances in miniaturization of electronic devices and in wireless communication technologies are making possible to enrich our everyday environments with computation and communication capabilities. This chapter presents the design and implementation of a system for tuple-based information access, context acquisition, and coordination in environments enriched with radio frequency identification device (RFID) tags. It briefly introduces RFID technology and discusses related work in the area. The chapter examines some application examples to clarify the use of the system and describes the potential application areas. The future pervasiveness of RFID technology, together with its low cost and wireless data access, makes it an interesting option to explore in pervasive computing scenarios. Several research proposals in the area of pervasive computing exploit RFID tags as a simple and cheap way to enforce some forms of context awareness. The chapter explores hardware test-bed and the implemented software architecture.
