Résumé:
1980 marked the start of a boom in radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology, initially associated
with a growing need for traceability. In view of the technological progress and lower costs, RFID’s area of
application became much broader and, today, multiple business sectors take advantage of this technology. However,
in order to achieve the maximum benefits of RFID technology, the data collected should be delivered in the best
conditions to the whole applications that have need of its exploitation. For that, a dedicated middleware solution is
required to ensure the collection of RFID data and their integration in information systems. The issues and key points
of this integration as the description of the RFID technology will be summarized in the present paper, with a new
middleware architecture. We focus mainly on components and the design of our middleware MedRFID, solution
developed in our Lab, and which integrates mobility and provides extensibility, scalability, abstraction, ease of
deployment and compatibility with IATA standards and EPCglobal standards. Moreover, we have developed an
application (FindLuggage) allowing a real time tracking of luggage in the airport, based on the proposed middleware
MedRFID.
