Temporal Data Modeling for RFID Data in the Retail Industry

  • Yun, Hong-Won (Department of Information Technology, Silla University) ;
  • Lee, Jung-Hwa (Department of Computer Software Engineering, Dongeui University)
  • Published : 2007.06.30

Abstract

RFID applications are mostly associated with the timestamp when the events occur. For managing RFID data we need to design data modeling for RFID data to support monitoring and temporal queries. In this paper, we propose a temporal RFID data modeling to maintain the history of events and state changes and to monitor the states of RFID objects. This data modeling involves essential basic operations for RFID data to monitor the information of RFID objects and to support temporal queries. Filter operations can achieve better query performance and obtain efficient storage space usage. It is possible to adapt into different temporal business applications.

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