The design and implementation of an intelligent deployment system for RFID readers

Abstract: Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses non-contact data access mechanism to read or write tag data through the radio frequency transmitted by the readers. Currently, the RFID systems are applied in different areas. However, the data access rate of a RFID system could be interfered by the environment furnishings, barriers, deployment method, and number of readers. The system stability heavily depends on the experiences of the deployment engineers especially for the active readers. This paper proposes an intelligent deployment system for RFID readers. The system uses the furnished simulation of environment and the best deployment of readers to construct an automatic deployment system for the RFID readers. The former constructs a fuzzy interference model of barriers according to the materials and inference degree of the furnishings. The latter uses the reader cluster and genetic algorithm to establish the best deployment plan of readers. The experimental results show that the system can reduce the interference problem of reader deployment as well as improve the reliability and stability of the RFID systems. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]