Enhancing RFID system configuration through semantic modelling

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) system technology is a key element for the realization of the Industry 4.0 vision, as it is vital for tasks such as entity tracking, identification and asset management. However, the plethora of RFID systems’ elements in combination with the wide range of factor...

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Published in:Knowledge engineering review 2021, Vol.36, Article e11
Main Authors: Tsalapati, Eleni, Tribe, James, Goodall, Paul A., Young, Robert I., Jackson, Thomas W., West, Andrew A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access control
Antennas
Asset management
Automated reasoning
Automatic identification
Automation
Bar codes
Configurations
Decision making
Deduction
Design
Domains
Industrial applications
Ontologies and Standards for Intelligent Systems
Ontology
Radio frequency identification
Reasoning programs
Robots
Semantics
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Summary:Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) system technology is a key element for the realization of the Industry 4.0 vision, as it is vital for tasks such as entity tracking, identification and asset management. However, the plethora of RFID systems’ elements in combination with the wide range of factors that need to be taken under consideration along with the interrelations amongst them, make the problem of identification and design of the right RFID system, based on users’ needs particularly complex. The research outlined in this paper seeks to optimize this process by developing an integrating schema that will encapsulate this information in a form that is both human and machine processible. Human readability will allow a shared understanding of the RFID technology domain; machine readability, automated reasoning engines to perform logical deduction techniques returning implicit information. For this purpose, the novel RFID System Configuration Ontology (RFID SCO) is developed. Hence, non-RFID experts are enabled to identify the most suitable RFID system according to their needs and RFID experts to retrieve all the relevant information required for the efficient design of the corresponding RFID system. The RFID SCO is validated and tested successfully against real-world scenarios provided by domain experts.
ISSN:0269-8889
1469-8005
DOI:10.1017/S0269888921000096