Pluggable RFID components and a Lightweight RFID System based on OSGi

We propose a new idea for pluggable RFID components and a lightweight RFID system to serve as an infrastructure for home services. The platform is based on OSGi (open service gateway initiatives). By the proposed architecture, RFID services (applications) can be encapsulated into bundles of OSGi and downloaded to any OSGi environment. Therefore, this architecture provides a common service environment which can be configured to have a variety of RFID readers, tag filters, databases, encapsulated as pluggable components, working together. The system can be setup flexibly and rapidly. The design and implementation of a prototype RFID system is also presented.