Context transmission in personal IoT through an extension of the EPC Tag Data Standard

In the next few years, billions of devices will be connected to the Internet generating and transmitting a huge amount of data. With the growth of the Internet of Things, we have to face many challenges for which new solutions should be designed and implemented. The success of these solutions will depend on how the Internet of Things is seen, how its elements are categorised and understood, how its contexts are organised, processed and embedded to applications. In this work, we present a discussion about personal IoT. We analyze its characteristics and how it fits in the domain of IoT. We propose a definition for personal IoT, based on the analysis of a number of application domains, and present a form of organizing, recording and transmitting physical context. Our proposal is based on an extension of the EPC Tag Data Standard, which means that our solution can be fully employed with the current technology. Our solution can leverage the use of RFID tags in providing physical context to applications and services that use them. This is important in scenarios where we need to perform some context-aware computation.