Abstract
With the development of the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, many application domains have applied the technology to support the routine operations. The previous studies about RFID applications focus mainly on the specific issues in the application domains. This research aims at discovering the interactions between objects (including human beings, physical goods and locations) based on their predefined objectives. In order to reduce the time and costs for searching objects, this reseach attempts to establish a model to derive object relationship and guide the objects toward their predefined objectives via the RFID technology. Therefore, this study analyzes the eight general types of object interactions and develops an RFID-based model and platform for object relationship identification and guiding. In order to automatically reveal the relationship between objects via the RFID technology, this research proposes an object relationship identification and guiding algorithm based on the eight types of object interactions. The proposed model consists of three components namely object combination (OB), object relationship identification (ORI) and object guiding (OG). In the OB module, the objects are grouped based on their characteristics. In the ORI module, the relationships between objects can be determined based on the demands and attributes of objects. In the OG module, the information of relative position can be determined and deliverd to the specific objects in order to guide the objects toward their predefined objectives. This research also develops an RFID-based object relationship identification and guiding platform based on the proposed model in order to realize the goal of guiding the objects toward their predefined objectives. Moreover, based on the proposed methodology, an Object Relationship Identification and Guiding System (ORIG-System) is established and a simulated environment is created in order to verify the feasibility and performance of the proposed model. The verification results show that the system has good efficiency in object relationship identification and guiding. As a whole, the proposed model and system could be applied in real-world cases to support the routine operations in distinct application domains via the RFID technology.