CRISP: A flexible integrated development platform for RFID systems

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology to store and retrieve information remotely using electromagnetic waves. RFID is poised to drastically change the way industries collect and manage information. Research in this area has been growing in the past few years given the wide range of applications that can benefit from such a technology. In this paper we introduce the cognitive RFID integrated system platform (CRISP), a framework for development and implementation of RFID communication protocols. The framework enables advanced research in the area of RFID wireless communication protocols and algorithms. As such, CRISP provides a flexible, scalable, configurable and high performance RFID research tool. In the following sections the CRISP hardware implementation and software architecture are discussed in detail. Radio configurations and applications are presented. Future research made possible by this flexible platform is also discussed.